My Sister's Bones: 'Rivals The Girl on the Train as a compulsive read' Guardian

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As well as her job, Kate’s retelling of her abusive childhood is also awful and you just feel so bad for her. I was reading it right around the time I'd gotten my hands on Incubus' "Megalomaniac" album, so when I listen to that I think of this book and vice versa. I really loved how every part of the book was concluded with a sentence, which actually used to take my breath away with disbelief and wish to know more. In fact, Nuala Ellwood’s own background and family history in this area, which I discovered after reading this book, would have helped enormously in crafting her first book.

This book has everything, it is fast paced, it has lots of twists and turns and it thickens with every chapter.But then I decided to to play with the speed of the book reading (wanting to power through it faster) and found that playing it x1.

There is nothing excessive--each word counts in this first person story of Billie Weinstein and her struggle through family life as a sixteen year old girl. her admiration/emulation of italian american culture is particularly interesting in that it gives her a way to assert her self-identity as apart from her family's. Author Ellwood said: “I am thrilled that Bill Kenwright Films has optioned the film rights to my novel My Sister’s Bones.It took me to places I did not anticipate, but I do appreciate being shaken up by a book every now and then. She is the author of seven highly acclaimed novels, the most recent of which was The Secrets of Rochester Place. He was a theatre producer and chairman of Everton Football Club and among his many feature producing credits are Stepping Out starring Liza Minnelli; Stephen Frears’ 2009 romantic comedy Cheri; Rufus Norris’ Cannes 2012 feature Broken; and Sarmad Masud’s 2018 UK Oscar submission My Pure Land. RIVALS THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN AS A COMPULSIVE READ' The GuardianIf you can't trust your sister, then who can you trust?

It's funny and sweet, but also desperately sad, as Billie chronicles the diminishing health of her sister alongside her own desperate grasp for control through her friends and promiscuity. We’re excited to bring this gripping and thrilling story to the market,” said Tannaz Anisi, principal of 13 Films. The parents were ridiculous and oblivious - I guess that’s somewhat expected for the time period My Sister’s Bones is set in.

The reader has to keep up with changes in the chronology and the mixing up of the plot line about Kate's childhood, her experiences in Syria and her present day struggles with the loss of her mother and the strange goings on in the house. While packing up her mother's belongings she comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.