This book was beautifully written especially in terms of the scenic descriptions it felt like I was in Sweden and could picture everything so clearly. Be warned though this book jumps forwards and backwards in time so you will sometimes feel a little bit out of sorts. Last Snow was also a slow burner but it really fitted with the book and I found myself taking my time with the book and just enjoying working out what was true or a suspicion.
There is a fairytale quality to Stina Jackson’s superb second novel (her first was The Silver Road). It describes terrible things — addiction, violence, physical and psychological abuse — in such a matter-of-fact way, in such perfect prose, that what ought to be unbearable becomes spellbinding. Each character, whether good or bad, is treated with clear-eyed compassion that implies: “There aren’t any monsters. There are only people.”
There is a fairytale quality to Stina Jackson’s superb second novel (her first was The Silver Road). It describes terrible things — addiction, violence, physical and psychological abuse — in such a matter-of-fact way, in such perfect prose, that what ought to be unbearable becomes spellbinding. Each character, whether good or bad, is treated with clear-eyed compassion that implies: “There aren’t any monsters. There are only people.”