Ali Smith’s style of prose is captivating enough that it led me through the whole book with relative speed, but ultimately I was waiting for some kind of plot to appear that just didn’t materialise. There were some fairly disgusting characters in this, I found Amber to be an awful person, and the only two characters I could really connect with emotionally were the two children, Astrid and Magnus. Some trigger warnings on this too for anyone who wants to give it a go.