Beautifully written, cleverly plotted and pacey – it's the first book that's caught and sustained my attention during lockdown, and the first book in ages that I want to push onto everyone I speak to.

Loved this story. Obviously very clearly based upon the recent events in America last year, where another family were found guilty of tying their children to their beds and starving them until one of the girls managed to escape. However, there are a few changes, it's set in the UK, there aren't quite as many children and there are definitely twists in the story - that may or may not have happened in the real life story. It does make you think. And this tells it from the perspective of the adult Girl A. There's a lot of twists and turns and I really enjoyed it and couldn't put it down. It doesn't give you a happy ending but I suppose that's true of the real story as well.

Reading a book that tells the tale of a young girl who escapes from a “House of Horrors” after years of abuse at the hands of her own parents is never going to be easy reading.
GirlA tells the story of Lex, the eldest daughter who along with her siblings has been imprisoned by her ultra religious father and mother for several years. Retelling the story as an adult, a successful lawyer in adulthood, we learn about Lex, her brothers and sisters and their lives before and after.
Often harrowing, but never gratuitous in the telling, this work of fiction resembles so many of the horror stories we have read over the years. And although this may be fiction we all know that this could have been reality.

This got a bit dark! A mix of cases from real life seem to have inspired this - The house of horrors of Frank and Rosemary West and Fritzl and....when you realise this situation actually happens and people really do this kind of thing. It's a sharp shock of a novel and very captivating and hard to describe. This is emotional and you need to hold your breath and dive in.

It wasn't my cup of tea but it's a good novel and some very sharp writing and gripping plot.

Dive in to the darkness......

One of my anticipated reads. I actually did a little happy dance when I had the email from @netgalley last night to say it was in here.
This hasn’t disappointed and I have devoured this in just one sitting. This has been a dark read which has considered a family who grew up in a “house of horrors”
This author has pulled me in from the beginning and I have loved it. This is a great read, out January 2021. I highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️