I was given a free coy of this book by Penguin Random House Ireland in exchange for an honest review.

2-2.5 Stars

Anna and her father live in Krakow, Poland, and one day in 1939, Anna's father doesn't come home from the university where he works. After waiting for him and realising he isn't going to return, Anna wanders aimlessly until she ends up finding the 'Swallow Man'. They become companions and Anna follows him for the duration of the war.

I feel like I know what the author was trying to do here, but for me it just didn't work and fell completely flat. I thought this was a middle grade/YA book at first but after reading it I would say it's adult, as I found some of the wording/context confusing and there was very little plot. The plot was rather aimless and seemed to go in circles and not know where it was suppose to go. It could have been a very beautiful story but unfortunately it wasn't. It probably border-lined on a little bit pretentious. The ending was also just really confusing and maybe I just missed some sort of message in the rest of the book, because I didn't get it all.