With its honest characters and dialogue, its unique coverage of the trauma Ella and her family experience, and its ability to unite readers with Ella's coping process is a tender, moving story in the classic Wilson mould

Wilson's clear, honest writing crackles through this moving tale . . . This absorbing novel packs an emotional punch which should satisfy Wilson's many fans, old and new

This story will delight . . . As always, the characters are beautifully portrayed and you are really drawn into their lives, especially that of Ella

Seriously good and compulsively readable novel that spans fifty years and two interwoven stories of love, betrayal and self-discovery

Writing and literature at its best

As always, Chambers writes with the fierce intelligence and honesty which distinguishes his work. If more novels of adolescence had this quality and seriousness, we wouldn't risk losing those readers who feel patronised by teenage fiction