I am not sure how I feel about this book. The accolades are numerous, the writing is fabulous but I felt sort of distanced from the story. It‘s about two teenaged sisters, July and September, who have left their home in Oxford to live in a crumbling cottage by the sea after some sort of “incident”. It‘s been called everything from a “gothic mystery” to a “highly disturbing shocker”. Despite those descriptors, it wasn‘t a page turner.