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I am DNFing at about 50% but not marking it as a bail. It is totally me, not the book. The writing is good, the short chapters make it an easy, fast read. I can easily see why it‘s on the #WomensPrize longlist. The mental health cycle it deals with is hard and I am avoiding picking it back up. Time to call it.

#Bookmail! After not acquiring any physical books for two full months (two! Maybe two and a half, really!), these arrived today, ordered from the UK for my Women‘s Prize for fiction reading. They don‘t have US pub dates, so I figured this my only way of completing the list. I‘ve read 8 so far and am sputtering a bit on my 9th read, which is feeling more and more like a bail.

How am I the first to post about this book while it‘s on the #WomenPrize longlist??
Anyhow, it deserves to be there. It‘s a powerful read. Cilla leaves her homeland Grenada to make money in the UK. She leaves her son Raef behind and it takes 7 years before she can afford his ticket and for him to reunite with his family. Things don‘t go well however and Cilla blames herself. Told by mother and son alternately the book packs a punch.