I have very few words to explain how I felt about this. I will say that I struggled to get into this book at first. It felt very slow and the prologue really drew me in and it felt that it drew me into nothing and I was confused. But after picking it up again, I could not put it down. I read like 50% in one day. Genuinely.

It is difficult to explain what this is about without either feeling like I'm playing it down or exaggerating. But what this story is about is the friendship between two girls growing up in Naples in the 1950s. This book covers things that young and teen girls would be thinking about and would be discussing. But also covers more than that.

I will end by saying that never have I had a book have me SCREAMING because of a pair of shoes.