A contemporary fiction by a debut author. Based around the Appalachian mountains in Pennsylvania. Teenage runaways come.take over in the hills and start invading homes. A story about finding your inner peace and redemption.

A solid, slow-paced story of small-town American life, with interesting characters that sometimes required more depth. However, the sparsity of description made sense in this specific setting, and the story flowed nicely.

It’s such a shame that mine is the first review on Amazon UK as I guess that means this wonderful book isn’t being widely read here – and it most definitely deserves to be. A small working–class town in Pennsylvania is disrupted by the arrival of a band of travellers, or gypsies as the townsfolk call them, who set up camp in some local caves and start to prey on the town by breaking in to the houses and stealing whatever they can. Feelings begin to run high and tension mounts as the inhabitants decide what to do about it. But not everyone is against the gypsies. Vietnam vet Ramsy also feels like an outsider and is reluctantly drawn into feeling some sympathy for what he sees as just “kids”. Then his friend Stella, who is still grieving for the loss of her baby 15 years before, also has her sympathies aroused when she discovers a young girl with her small baby amongst the band. This is a beautifully written and heart-rending story of loss and grief, of inarticulateness, of being an outsider longing for connection and inclusion, and perhaps of redemption. I loved this book and read it almost at one sitting. A haunting and moving tale of lost souls.

Most definitely the most lyrical book I've read for quite some time. It starts off slow but by the end you're engulfed in the words and the characters lives become part of your own. I really hope the author continues this great work!!!