Cassie McCullough

and really wonderfully crafted.

But the whole time she's maintaining this fantasy that she has strange extra abilities.

And her friendship with you becomes even more complex because it turns out that you believes that he's come from outer space.

And he's been left here and abandoned with this family.

And he's looking for the spaceship that's coming back or hasn't left yet.

He wants to get off this earth because he doesn't belong here.

And the two of them fall into this folie a deux, really.

Yes, and it's a critique, I suppose, of the constraints of much of what I understand of Japanese life, having read the work of Sayaka Murata's previous novel.

And I quite liked that description.

relationship i thought that was very interesting that that section but the tug of the natural world is too much to resist and then well i don't think we can say too much about what happens kate except that it takes a very big 90 degree turn into well wild fantasy really

Perhaps best summed up by Three Go Wild in Akashina.

Look, I recommended this book to my mum.

I had a spare copy of it for some reason and I was like, this is so great, this book, and I gave it to her.

Look, it's really interesting.

And then I finished it and I had to send mum this text message.

Okay, so that book I gave you gets, capital letters, very weird.

Yeah.

maybe it's not for you but if you do plow on i'll be interested to hear what you think perhaps it's best if i give you a replacement book

This is only because my mum is a fantastic reader, brilliant reader, but she doesn't like violence.

She can't handle violence, even on television at all.