I received a free copy of this book from Little Island in exchange for an honest review.

The Space Between is a beautiful book completely written in verse about a young woman called Beth who can’t leave her house.

In the book,we learn that Beth has decided she’s not leaving the house for an entire year but it’s soon revealed that she also can’t seem to allow herself to leave the house and she suffers from severe anxiety.

There were so many times this book genuinely took my breath away at just how beautiful, truthful and powerful some lines were in it. I haven’t read many books in verse and I always go into them with trepidation because it’s a form I’m unfamiliar with but this story sucked me right in and Beth just clung to my heart straight away, as did Alice.

“What do you do when your brain is refusing to let you step outside
while screaming that you aren’t safe
that you need to run
you need to go?”

This book also had chapters/pages dedicated solely to Beth’s period and I LOVED this, being a huge advocate of the inclusion of menstruation in books.

This book is also diverse and I believe own voices (in the sexuality aspect at least anyway though I’m not 100% sure about the anxiety)