This is a fascinating story about two young women who pull myth into the modern day - but don't quite get what they are in for. The story alternates between a single day in the present, when Carys has been persuaded to return to the High Fields, and the years it took Carys and Hazzard to get there in the first place.

It does a lot with lack of communication without ever tripping the 'but why do you people not just talk' trope. There are silences in families, and spaces that no-one knows how to traverse, if they even know they are there.

This was my second attempt at reading this, and part of the problem with the first go through is that the past chapters are all printed in a very fine italic print that makes it near impossible for me to read. With very strong light and some amount of eyestrain, I've got through this, but while I loved it I might never be able to read it again. ( )