A review by redheadreading
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

I enjoyed getting an insight into the Maltese community in Cardiff in the 60s. This is a very sad and bleak story, but I confess to feeling a bit of distance from the narrative. Perhaps because our narrator exists at a bit of a distance from everything? Very early on she gets badly burned as a child and as such is kept inside a lot, so there's a slightly odd perspective where we are ostensibly seeing through the eyes of a young child, except the narration style is quite mature and is often presenting events that the character herself was not present for. That said, I did find myself compelled to know what would happen, but I definitely preferred the first part which focused on the family in the 60s rather than part two which was set much later.