Published: 2014, Picador Genre: Fiction Themes: family, race, abuse, friendship My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤ I have given this book three out of five even though it probably deserves more. The writing is quite inspired in places, and I think some people would really love the original style of this book, but I found it took me a while to get into it. I suppose this book is out of my comfort zone, and there is a strange unsettling quality to it, which readers will either embrace or pull away from, as it combines beautiful writing with the utmost cruelty. The main character is a girl named Boy whose childhood is filled with episodes of violent physical abuse at the hands of her father who is the local rat-catcher. Her mother died when she was born, so there is no-where else to go, and in the end she is around college age before she flees from her home and takes a night bus to Flax Hill at the end of the route. She is free at last, but she has no money...