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4.5

Very beautifully written, such precise language and sentences. I did wish the childhood section had gone on longer although I understand that the book doesn't really NEED it � but her ability to get inside the mindset of a child and render it into language was so impressive to me.

There are a lot of books about people reckoning with CSA, because it's sadly very common; I think Jones is careful and thoughtful with this subject and does an especially good job showing how her protagonist's endless paranoia resulting from her experience has affected her parenting. Her writing of the parents, especially the mother, are also very sharp and astute: who can't recognize a figure like the mother here, who simply can't acknowledge reality and who has therefore left her daughter alone to suffer? But as familiar and archetypal as this character is, this mother is also nasty in specific ways, while the dad is, of course, mentally elsewhere.

I was not so interested in the current-day relationships with men or the sex in the book � so many books with women discovering they love being dominated in bed like no one has ever had this thought before; it would be nice to read something a little more complex � but otherwise, a very impressive debut. I'll be looking forward to her next novel.