The cover was what originally drew me to this book, and then I read it and it was terrific. The writing is exquisite, these kind of slow burn stories are quite often let down by boring writing but this is excellent. The story I think would appeal to readers who have enjoyed books like The Handmaids Tale and When She Woke. I really enjoyed it.

Closer to a prose-poem than a conventional novel, this offers a hallucinogenic meditation on gender and violence. The setting is opaque and the various voices all really one as three young women confront what the book proposes is their biological fate: 'the violence came for all women, border or no border. It was already in our blood, in our collective memory.'

So not the most subtle of feminist polemics but there's some lovely writing drawing on influences from traditional fairy-tales to contemporary writers like Atwood.