I confess that I picked this book up, knowing nothing about it, or its author. I admit I picked it because of the cover. I know, I know, don’t judge a book blah blah blah - but it was irrisistable! I have mixed emotions about this novel. Whilst reading it, I was involved and moved particularly by Silver’s longing for a place to call her own. But already, it’s fading from my memory, and I’m confident that in a month I won’t remember a lot about it at all. It left me feeling a little sad, and a little, well, underwhelmed.