"This LoveReading Star Book is a beautifully compelling, thought-provoking debut about a woman who confronts her harrowing past. "
The book world has been excited about this debut for some time, and for good reason as it is such an intensely powerful and emotional read. Lex Gracie is Girl A, the girl who escaped the House of Horrors, as an adult she now has to confront the past all over again. This is a book that deserves your time, don’t rush, even though it is so good it calls for you to race through.
Lex narrates, her clear concise words transferred to my thoughts with piercing clarity. Abigail Dean writes with a devastatingly eloquent pen, she examines the cause and effect of power, abuse, and trauma. When a book alters the patterns of your thoughts, if only for a short time, it deserves to be read, to be felt, even if those feelings are harrowing at times.
When I reached the end, I slowed, stopped, and after a few moments returned to the last few chapters to read and again allow the words to enter and become fully absorbed in my heart. I’m not sure if everyone will follow the same fork in the path that I took as I read, and that is what makes this book so special, the reader will make their own decision as to where they step with Lex.
A LoveReading Star Book, Girl A is challenging, thought-provoking and above all a beautifully compelling read.
'Girl A,' she said. 'The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.'
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'Girl A,' she said. 'The girl who escaped.
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Girl A was written by Abigail Dean and published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Girl A has 328 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.
