This was the first book I have read by Ms Siddons and it proved to be what I thought it would be: readable but unremarkable. I enjoyed the descriptions of "Eel woman" and could picture her and Tee in their bicylce shorts. Unfortunately I did not see much change in Molly. She just traded waiting on her immediate family in the south to waiting on a substitute family in the north. Can't she find anything else that would bring her fulfillment?