Libby lives on an orchard and life is pretty good, despite her having a very rocky relationship with her mother. But then her beloved grandfather dies, her grandmother loses touch with reality as a result and Libby gets sent to boarding school. To deal with all this she starts to self-harm in a way I hadn't heard about before. It's not all doom and gloom though, because at boarding school Libby meets a girl who, along with her family, shows her that there is a way through the misery she is experiencing. I enjoyed this book because the story was absorbing and most of the characters were believable. Because it is a New Zealand novel, it was great reading about things uniquely-Kiwi - that added a lot to my enjoyment of the book.
Who would enjoy this? Someone who wants to explore what can happen when things change radically in your life: sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
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