1911: 14-year-old Monica Burnett wakes up in her holiday room in Venice believing she might have killed her guardian Rose Driscoll. Or was it all a dream, one of her frequently occurring ones? So she goes on a ramble across Venice by herself. Believable? Not!
Odd child, rude, bratty, precocious and unlikeable.
The confused musings of a fourteen-year-old, highly-strung, overly dramatic child as imagined by a male author.
The overriding impression of this book was: What was the point?
Three stars due to the pretty description of Venice.

Monica is a 14 year old orphan on a trip to Venice with her new guardian at the behest of her former guardian.

Her world merges between reality and imagination, to the extent that sometimes even she cannot distinguish what has and has not happened.

This was an intriguing though slightly unsettling read and I am still not sure how much I enjoyed it. Read it and make your mind up for yourself! Thank you to the publisher, author and NetGalley for the advance reader copy for which I have given my honest opinion.