A long and difficult book.
A weird mixture of straightforward contemporary narrative, souls jumping from body to body as the normal and another world clash (Philip Pullman, without the (anti)religious overtones), and a very dystopian final chapter set in 2043.
So a big, big book. I found the bits where people reappear in other guises and the war between the two parties, whose names I can’t remember, a tedious distraction, so the point of this aspect of the story was lost on me. It begins, in 1984, with Holly, an unsettled teenager running away from home, and ends in 2043 with Holly, now a grandmother living in a dystopian Ireland 60 years later and helping her grandchildren escape. A lot of the intermediary bits were lost on me.
But good enough to merit a re-read.
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