Angela Bowne

It's sort of unimaginable to have your child put in jail.

He's obviously very disturbed and he won't speak to her and his behaviour is, I think, borders on bipolar or some sort of psychotic behaviour in the jail.

No, it's incredibly deep, but without being dense to read.

I think it's a very interesting

incredibly clever the way Amanda Laurie has put so much depth in it without making it didactic or tedious at all.

But there isn't much story.

Once she gets to the town near the jail, she makes friends with some of the locals and

We hear some of their stories, but the story is really her journey.

Yes, and her relationship with Yoko, it could have been very easy to have turned that into a sexual relationship, but it was good to see that was resisted, yes.

But the only red herring I found in the whole novel was Yoko's going out at night or going out for hours.

We never found out where.

Did you find out where?

Joko is an illegal immigrant who's also had his own tragedies.

He's fought with his father and he describes his bones having been broken by his father.

He's itinerant, avoiding the authorities.

He's trained as a stonemason in Croatia.

He's very

revealing any details of himself but he eventually does to Erica she wants to engage him to to help her with her labyrinth and he he does info he eventually agrees to and he infiltrates her life in a way that she's happy about but

To me, it was an infiltration, and maybe this is giving away too much.

They do start building the labyrinth, and they argue about the design of it and the materials, but they have a sort of a camaraderie.