Karen Cushman is one of my favorite authors. I loved Catherine Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice. This book was not quite as good as those. The language caused me to read slower. I also didn't like Meggy Swann as much as I liked Catherine. I did like the depiction of how someone with a disability might be treated before we really understood illnesses, and I could still see some parallels to today's world. Still worth a read, although not an extraordinary book.

Currently re-reading on audio because it won the Odyssey. So much better as an audio, probably due to the talented Katherine Kellgren (RIP).