This is definitely a unique coming of age book that I think most people will be able to relate to it in some way as Rachel Donahue writes with so much feeling. It really is so beautifully written. I had an overwhelming sense of sadness and nostalgia when reading this book as the emotion the author manages to invoke with her writing is something else. She really manages to create a feeling of time and place that you end up so absorbed by. This story so accurately reflects the intensity that comes with growing up and that sense of things changing but not quite being able to control or understand them. The characters are all very well written and form part of the story perfectly. I also really loved the subtle references to an era that I can well remember. This book is very different to the author’s previous book The Temple House Vanishing but just as good and thought provoking.