‘The end was absolutely phenomenal, and alarmingly clever – I could not have guessed the ending in the wildest of my dreams!’
A book hasn’t made me cry for quite a long time but I knew as soon as I received this one I would have an emotional attachment to it. This is easily very high in my top favourite novels of 2015; it has had a very memorable effect on me. It was a short, but still very powerful read – I absolutely love when books like this can have such an impact on you with so few pages.
Iris is a very troubled child; she loves setting fire to things, and has been left to cope alone by her mother Hannah and her step father Lowell. She hasn’t had any contact with her rich father Ernest until she and her family find out he is ill and dying. Rushing off to visit him, Hannah and Lowell are desperate to get their hands on Ernest’s expensive paintings, but Ernest has other ideas.
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