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A review by flightyrachel
Bitterhall by Helen McClory
4.0
This is an amazing book, ostensibly about three friends who find an old diary, but which is actually about story telling and how we create reality within our own heads.
The three voices which tell the story are distinct, whole and utterly believable, which is ironic as the book is about disintegration, merging and different versions of truth. By keeping the voices so strong, the multiple versions of events are all equally convincing and you can choose to read this as a ghost story or a story of mental collapse.
I really cared about what would happen and I thought the ending was extremely well done, with great sensitivity, and I was very moved by it.
The three voices which tell the story are distinct, whole and utterly believable, which is ironic as the book is about disintegration, merging and different versions of truth. By keeping the voices so strong, the multiple versions of events are all equally convincing and you can choose to read this as a ghost story or a story of mental collapse.
I really cared about what would happen and I thought the ending was extremely well done, with great sensitivity, and I was very moved by it.