Recommended by Professor Carpenter
What we know for the first third of this wonderful novel is that the narrator’s life has been scarred by a cataclysmic event that destroyed her family and left her struggling to relate to people and react appropriately to everyday occurrences around her. I won’t spoil the surprise, but the novel’s slow revelation of what has gone wrong in this young woman’s life is beautifully crafted and compelling. Light years ahead of Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club, in my opinion.