This book was a gift, and isn’t one I would have bought myself, mostly because of the suggestion of sexual violence that is in the blurb. It was however a pleasant surprise, yes there is violence, sexual and otherwise, but it doesn’t feel gratuitous and isn’t a cut and paste situation.
Further to that the framing of the story was really interesting, I knew nothing about Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia before reading this, let alone the role of women in the conflict. In general I didn’t find the writing and story amazing, but it was worth reading.
