It’s incredible that these people, who have been so real to me for years, will become real to other people. The story is told from the perspective of Girl A, Lex Gracie, and follows the now grown-up Gracie siblings as they navigate adulthood after a childhood filled with horror, abuse and starvation. This was exceptionally frustrating, and I hope the team resolve these issues before it is published.

They meet (most of them) again at the end to discuss some financial matters regarding their childhood home.

Ma il mistero rimane: perché mai debuttare con una storia così orribile e raccapricciante, inquietante e disturbante? British-Nigerian playwright and filmmaker Adura Onashile makes a promising feature-length debut with this study of an intensely bonded mother and daughter resettling in Glasgow. We had been informed, by a video in school, of the practicalities: the blood, the cramping, the sanitary products. However, it fell apart for me as to the time lapses and the view from the children now grown to adult.

This is an extremely well written multilayered debut which via Lexi’s narrative examines how characters survive childhood trauma in varying ways. It is dark, deceptive and an utterly delicious read which tells the story of Lex, a high-flying lawyer working in New York whose troubled childhood was spent in a remote house in England with her siblings and parents. Also, I wanted way more details of what exactly happened in the House of Horrors, a lot was left to the reader’s imagination and very vague. My heart melted for these poor kids and their horrible parents made me want to shred the pages of this book in anger! subjectively speaking I enjoyed it without ever tipping over into the kind of bookish obsession that grips me.It happened six years ago with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, a book that, along with 2012’s Gone Girl, triggered a deluge of thrillers with “girl” in the title.