Wow.This only took me 5hours to read (and that includes a 2hour break to make and eat my dinner).This book is mindblowingly good, the imagery,the sense of fear and unknown and the ever pervasive thread of something disturbing just flows out of every page of this book. All of the stars⭐⭐️️⭐️⭐️⭐️
To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel after this even though I finished it on a single day.
SPOILERS
I feel like Helen & Martina grew up on the land that was later rezoned for this housing estate. And that maybe the land reclaimed them. Or that it's an allegory of the effect of Capitalism, Church & Colonialism on ordinary people. Or maybe it was written without an explanation in mind - and that wrecks my quite literal mind!
May need to reread.