Little meaningful story. Teenager Isabelle is living with her heart broken - her beloved father died (under certain circumstances), and she and her Mom moved. There is nothing and nobody to connect to - or Isabelle thinks. But life just goes on and maybe there is hope and light to be found.

The topic of sadness is explained simply yet beautifully - but maybe one has to experience something similar to Isabelle to understand how one just lives almost normally, but there is something bottled up under the surface. It needs kindness (like the elder sisters Flora and Dora or classmates Margaret and Grace have) to make the sadness go out bits by bit one step at time. And maybe you can learn to live again, changed yet still you.

I first became interested in this book because of the quirky title, and the beautiful cover, but I had to stop reading at a certain point. I continued months later and finally was able to finish it. I found the story quite boring, and the writing style didn't suit me. Literally nothing happened in this book, dialogues seem forced, and the pacing is just too slow for me.