On my first reading I didn't really enjoy this book but on the second reading during the summer holidays when I was 16 lying beside a pool in Lanzarote, I fell completely in love with this book. I loved the landscape, the characters and their complex relationships, the tension between the families and the beautiful writing. This book is very dark and emotionally intense which I could definitely relate to as an emotional and slightly crazy teenage girl. I have read it numerous times since and I always seem to gain a different perspective from the book but the wilderness and setting of the book always stays with me, and when I think of this book even now I am transported to my childhood room in October where outside surrounded by a dark, rainy and windy night but still I have sense of comfort.