A review by melaniesreads
The Home by Sarah Stovell
5.0
I’m not sure I will ever again read such heartbreaking depravity. I feel so fortunate and blessed to have had a childhood full of love, the safety of a home with food on the table and normal parents.
This is a very dark read which doesn’t just touch on difficult subjects it shouts them out with a megaphone so be prepared. But if you can handle it you are in for the most beautiful tender story of three poor little girls whose only misfortune was to be born into bad circumstances.
With one girl dead and one found clinging to her body raw with grief and the other girl never speaking there is a mystery running throughout. However this is really secondary to the pure story of their difficult lives and how each have different ways of dealing with not only their past but also their present.
Hope and Annie formed an instant bond on meeting that developed into love. So how did it all end so horribly wrong? Can you love when you have never been shown any? Why does Lara never speak? Are you brave enough to discover the answers? If you are you will be rewarded with ghostly narration and writing that is elegant in all its descriptive glory, I don’t use the term masterpiece lightly but this is without a doubt the most masterful piece of literature I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a long time.
This is a very dark read which doesn’t just touch on difficult subjects it shouts them out with a megaphone so be prepared. But if you can handle it you are in for the most beautiful tender story of three poor little girls whose only misfortune was to be born into bad circumstances.
With one girl dead and one found clinging to her body raw with grief and the other girl never speaking there is a mystery running throughout. However this is really secondary to the pure story of their difficult lives and how each have different ways of dealing with not only their past but also their present.
Hope and Annie formed an instant bond on meeting that developed into love. So how did it all end so horribly wrong? Can you love when you have never been shown any? Why does Lara never speak? Are you brave enough to discover the answers? If you are you will be rewarded with ghostly narration and writing that is elegant in all its descriptive glory, I don’t use the term masterpiece lightly but this is without a doubt the most masterful piece of literature I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a long time.