this is quite possibly the saddest book i’ve ever read. it’s not like alice’s story is uncommon, but the way it’s written just makes you feel it. i’ll admit it, i cried… a lot.

4/5
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Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

“Beautifully constructed.. unashamedly passionate”

I love this book. It’s heaps better than her second novel. This is an all consuming read, beautifully woven and constructed; bleak as well as personable. I love the premise that Alice sees something that is the catalyst for the whole novel, yet the reader has to wait to find out what it was. Highly Recommended (though maybe more of a girl book than a boy book).

this book begins with the attempted suicide of a young woman named alice. while alice is in a coma the author traces back through her life with short excerpts leading up to what made her do it. this style of storytelling is very different and makes reading more interesting and invovled.