Blue Archipelago

Sebold has a beautiful way with words - she covers the subject of a child’s disappearance and the effects it has on those closest to her with compassion and insight.

A heartbreaking tale of two ranch hands, George and Lennie, who have a pipe dream to own their own ranch one day, where they can make their own decisions and live safely on their own.

The book is well written and gives an insight into how people with this Syndrome think and react to the wider world.

In a tale woven with fairy tales of people who can grow wings and fly away, Hoffman reveals how each character feels trapped by the hand that fate has dealt them; from a fated marriage, to a forbidden love affair, a long kept secret to drug-fuelled self-destruction.