Girl A: The Sunday Times and New York Times global best seller, an astonishing new crime thriller debut novel from the biggest literary fiction voice of 2021

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If you’re looking for a book to get immersed in and something which will absorb you then Girl A could be the book for you. l’incipit di queste trecentosessanta pagine di tourbillon che Abigail Dean padroneggia con sapiente abilità, accelerando e rallentando, approfondendo e sospendendo, alternando i piani temporali proprio dove conduce l’emozione di quel momento, di quella pagina.

I know she was trying to explain it to the reader, but she could have found a more believable way to do so.But the vast flats of the east Midlands defeat her, and her captor drives up in a tractor to take her back to his tumbledown cottage. It was she who escaped and alerted the authorities fifteen years ago, and afterwards she and her surviving siblings were all adopted by separate families. But the story and its protectors grew weary, and in the danker corners of the internet we became easy to find. I've seen some comparisons of Girl A to Room but Girl A is much darker and less sentimental about family as Girl A dives deep into what it would be like to be an abused sibling from a house full of other abused siblings.

Lex Gracie is the girl who finally managed to escape her family’s house of horrors, raise the alarm and end the torture for her siblings.Girl A is an unflinching look at the long term effects of child abuse and it's an intense and well-written novel. note to the author: if we're going to jump timelines (which is one of my all time favourite storytelling techniques) can we possibly not do that literally every other paragraph? According to ABC News at the time: "The 17-year-old told police that she and her 12 brothers and sisters were being held by her parents — and that some of her siblings were chained, according to investigators. It is absorbing and compelling reading and although it demonstrates the horrifying events of the children’s childhood at the hands of their parents it is never gratuitous or over detailed.

This is a disturbing novel about a girl who survived terrible abuse in a ‘house of horrors’ and as an adult is still suffering from the trauma of it. She took a law conversion course after finishing her degree and ended up focusing on technology law. I would've liked to know how she got her education after being so far behind and what were her motivations behind being a lawyer after dealing with such a horrendous childhood.

Sure, the father is of course a religious lunatic and the mother is a cowed baby machine but how can even such people view their emaciated children on a daily basis and think everything is copacetic? Sibling dynamics are never sunshine and roses in any family and throw in the abuse in Girl A, in which children are subjected to horrific psychological and physical abuse, and the relationships get very murky indeed. The first 60% of what I read wasn't horrible, but I saw that I was skimming over a lot of the characters' inner monologues, and that's when I knew it wasn't good for me. Would that “Girl” were so head-turningly titled: It’s a misleadingly bland moniker for a film that asserts quiet confidence in its sociopolitical shading and the neon-bright impressionism of its aesthetic. Girl A stands alongside books like Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild, or Kate Millet’s The Basement for its unflinching depictions of trauma.