Utterly believable...until it was unbelievable

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This book deals with a lot of topics - drugs, county lines, death, homelessness, debt, grooming - and it deals with them all well. For most of the book, details are utterly believable and terribly tragic; but then it all just gets a bit too unbelievable. Parts of the story jump to rapid conclusions, and even during the believable earlier part things jump about in the text - one minute you are reading about Angie, and in the next paragraph you are suddenly reading about what is happening with Angie's daughter, Grace. I don't know if this is a result of reading this as an e-book, or whether the formatting is the same in the actual paper copy, either way it felt a bit confused and muddled at times. The topics raised in this book are all really important and for the most part I think the author deals with them well, I'm just not sure the endings to all the threads (bar one) are believable.