Given our current political climate, especially in the UK, this feels like a book everyone should read. It is incredibly sad, but an important story. I feel quite raw having just finished it.
A beautiful story of grief, loss, and growing up too fast spanning 40 years of three siblings fleeing Vietnam in a boat, ending up in the UK as Thatcher came to power, before ending post-pandemic.
I adore the way this story was told. Part third-person perspective from the three siblings, part first-person of a lost fourth, part newspaper articles and part unnamed (until the end) researcher. This wasn't at all disjointed, each perspective complimented the others beautifully to create an inventive means of story-telling.

Wandering Souls is based on the true story of Cecile Pin's Mother, and it serves as a wonderful ode her journey, the lives lost, and the sheer hope that drives those to risk everything for a better life.

Only marked down because the second third/third quarter fell a little flat, detailing and almost listing events in their lives as the siblings assimilated into UK life, but lacked the tender emotion and poignancy embued in the start and end of the book. Personally, I would have enjoyed a more in depth telling of this part of the story, rather than a means to get from the beginning to the end. It's a rare occurrence for me to say a book is too short, but I could easily have read another hundred pages to really flesh out the middle of the story.