It has been years since I have read a book in one sitting but this one was incredible. What a writer. It is the story of a woman rescued from a mental hospital after 61 years incarceration. The story of how it happened is pieced together through the broken memories of the Alzheimers afflicted sister Kitty, the internal voice of Esme herself and through her young relative Iris. Esme has been put away because she is uncontrollable – these days we'd delight in her as a girl with spirit and imagination. Roll on the age of the feminists. It’s described by the Times as ‘almost ridiculously pleasurable …shocking, heartbreaking and fascinating’ and I couldn’t agree more. Wow, wow, wow. 5 star reading.
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