We see all the images three times, and the diary extracts (formatted to look like pages) twice. There are illustrations and diary entries throughout. It fits the tone of the book so well.Īlso, non-verbal main character! I loved seeing that rep, someone who’s interacting with body language and signing (with those who can sign.) The contrast between the school and then two of the people at Gallant really helped make Gallant feel more like a home, like a place Olivia wanted to fight for. I really liked the ending, the not-quite-settled-and-resolved feeling of it. Each time you think you know what’s going on and what will happen next, there’s a subversion of expectations – particularly at the ending. There is such a sense of mystery and foreboding about the wall and the house and the family secrets. The best way I can describe it is “what if there was something a lot less pleasant behind the wall in The Secret Garden?” Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don’t go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate’s western edge.īeyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood… The estate is empty, save for the servants. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she’s never met, her father’s older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. She grew up at Merilance School for Girls.
Her mother vanished all at once, and her father by degrees, and her voice was a thing she never had to start with. Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father, and a voice.
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