The Barefoot Child

I picked the book having read the blurb and whist not my usual read. It intrigued me to discover more.To experience such an emotional push and pull was initially quite disquieting. Which soon engaged with the trials & tribulations described. Particularly in the life development of the daughter and subsequently the mother. Whist not physically together their effect on each other was occasionally disturbing and yet compelling. As each met their challenges with tragic and resourceful experience and moved slowly together. An emotional challenging story of lives so often experienced around us. Very ably brought to reality by the author in a style which translates the story so well.

A Mother and Daughter are torn apart following a Nights Violence. We then follow their story's told in their own words. Switching between Jess the 6 year old daughter and her mother Lisa over a twelve year period as forgotten truths are remembered and unfold.