A review by misslezlee
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon

4.0

I’m no stranger to artist’s lofts and studios carved out of industrial spaces. My favorite one, the one most closely resembling the spaces in this novel was in Canary Wharf in the 1970s. A friend of a friend lived and worked there. When I visited, we could go up on the roof and enjoy spectacular views of the River Thames and the Tower of London. It was really seedy, run down and very dangerous at night. Nowadays, it is very swanky and extremely expensive to live there.

I got a little bit worried when the story started to take a supernatural turn, because I hadn’t expected that, but in the end it turned out to be an integral part of the plot