Recent Reads: What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

My review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini is about Madga, a teenage girl from New York, who has caused problems in her old life, and has come to live with her grandparents, somewhere she hasn't been for a couple of years, but where she used to summer every year, so there are other teens in the area that her grandparents fish up for her to socialise with again.

You find out more about Magda as you read the book, but you start out with a young woman who needs to take pills, and talks about guilt.  She starts to take walks in the woods near her grandparents house, and one day meets a guy, Bo, who tells her his family lives in the woods.

Magda is keeping his secret, trying to act like a normal college age teen, whilst knowing she won't be accepted by any college, so she starts volunteering at a woman's refuge in the town, with some of her friends. 

This was a thrill ride, as you learn more about Magda, Bo, the woman's refuge, and someone called Dr Goodnight.  It is a book written for teens, but that just means all of the emotions come across more intensely, which really works for a thriller.

What She Found in the Woods was published on 25th July 2019,  and is available to buy on Amazon  and on Waterstones.  I've found a link to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

You can follow Josephine Angelini on Twitter, or through her website.

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Pan MacMillan (the publishers) for this book.

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