“This slim, unsettling novel opens with Lucia trying to navigate the ‘mess’ of her daughter Amanda’s return home to their apartment near Pescara, in Italy’s Abruzzo... There is much bleakness here, but also hope. The author dedicates her novel to ‘all the women who survive’; and in pairing the stories of mother and daughter struggling to overcome men’s violent acts, she urges a solidarity between women, rather than a splintering. She shows that nature ‘overgrows tragedies and disasters’, and posits that for women to overgrow them too, past horrors must be examined. Silence is the greatest danger of all.”
Read the full review in The Spectator.
