A challenging and engaging character study - a book I couldn't put down and won't stop thinking about.

"Amniotic fluid drained from my lungs; as they filled with air, a nameless horror bloomed, and I shrieked."

What does it mean to be reborn? With full knowledge, could anyone forgive themselves for a prior lifetime of mistakes, regrets, sins, doomed to be repeated?

Or maybe the narrative doesn't doom. Maybe our destruction is written in our own belief in genetics, in trauma, modern-day versions of predestination. Or maybe change would be possible, if we were the kind of person who reached for it.

Abigail loves crosswords, suduko, writes music like solving a puzzle, where there is a right answer, pieces to put into their correct place. This is a story fit for her, where all the pieces slot exactly where they've always belonged.