3.5 stars. Other reviews complain about this being a slow book, and it is but I liked that - Donoghue allows the readers to feel the tiring shifts of the nurse, Lib who has been hired to watch over an Irish child whose parents claim she is a miracle - alive and not eating. I found the story compelling and read it quickly, wanting to know the outcome of young Anna. I really enjoyed the main story, it was Lib's loves that I had a few issues with: both in the main timeline of the story, where she falls in love with a journalist, and in her back story with her previous husband, neither of which I found convincing. I also felt that there were many conversations that Lib had with members of Anna's family and others that were cut short for the sake of the plot, and therefore a bit frustrating.
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