Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via The Publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

Another wonderful eARC that I should have read when I received it but somehow didn’t!

Aoife (a beautiful name!) has had her life upended - her mother is under psychiatric hold and her brother Theo is dead - and all she knows that she isn’t supposed to be talking about her imaginary friend, Teddy, like he is a real person.

“Sometimes when grown ups ask you to do something, they are really just telling you to do it.”

Told in 6 year old Aoife’s voice, the wonderfully innocent and childlike tone of the plot remains throughout - it honestly created more of a wonder like feature when reading the book, especially considering that the plot itself was focused on mental health and familial loyalty!

Aoife as a protagonist was resourceful, intelligent and yet retained the child like curiosity that made me wish that she was a friend I had in my childhood. She uncovers secrets in her family and deals with them far maturely than one would expect of a 6 year old with a whole lot of upheavals in her life than she should have had.

All That’s Bright and Gone is an emotional and gorgeous novel with a childlike wonder focusing on mental illness and it’s effect on not just the patient, but also those around them.



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