e and recognizing that maybe my experience as an advocate in the US is different compared to England. Regardless, it’s clear that no one in the sexual violence field was contacted to gather accurate information for this story.

Finally, the ending seemed too predictable. There were too many “suspects” in the story that muddied the waters, and some stuff in the way the characters were described that was just overkill.

I was expecting to really enjoy this book but it left me feeling disappointed and unreasonably annoyed.30:T789,http://www.anurseandabook.com/2016/10/the-girls-in-garden-by-lisa-jewell.html
I've read a few of Lisa Jewell's books, and I always love the complicated family dynamics that are her hallmark. The Girls in the Garden definitely shows her mark.

The story starts out with Pip finding her sister unresponsive, with her clothing pulled off of her in the middle of the park after dark, but then quickly backtracks into the months prior to the attack.

Pip and Grace's father has had a schizophrenic break, burning their house down before he was committed to a mental health facility. This leads to them moving into a small home backed up to the communal park shared by many families.

The girls quickly befriend the hippie family with three strange, homeschooled daughters who roam the park freely - kind of like free range parenting. Add in another little girl, who is jealous of the attention the new arrivals are receiving and a cute boy, and you are set up for pre-teen hormones and drama.

Adding to the weirdness is the fact that most of the kids parents also grew up in these houses, and one of their friends was killed when they were all teens. The mystery was never solved, and they all still seem to suspect each other's involvement in some latent way.

Adele and Leo have his father staying with them while he has a foot amputated due to diabetes, and he is a perv, and just a generally awful human. Leo is a bit of a question mark, y

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