i wanted to help her, them, the whole time but there was nothing to be done…

Veronique Olmi: Beside the Sea. 

I loved this.

I felt for the mother, her agony and pain I felt and I wanted to help her, help her to help her boys.

I felt for the boys, those two little boys who only wanted to feel safe, feel the love of their mother, the security of warmth and food, a wish for a dry and warm place to sleep, maybe have a bit of fun. To see their mother doing well.

The writing was so very captivating, so true, the voices in mother ´s head audible and real the worsening of the mental health of mother very sad and I just wanted to stop reading, go there, help her out, help the boys, make everything good for the all

But all I could do was to keep on reading even though the bad the unevitable was there, written in the very skilful tension, there, always, on every page and the ending, of course it went like that but

Yes, I loved this book, loved how the text was so full of emotions, so full on tension,

of badness,

of madness, of agony someone losing their sanity no matter what they did, what they wanted.

Perfect. Loved this !