He can get his rocks off far from the prying eyes of the same reporters and paparazzi his daddy would be training on anyone else. This was one of the few books I've read that as a former self harmer (though I do occasionally have the odd accident) that went someway to describe the reality of why people cut. Nonetheless, Cut offers a striking insight into the elite world of surgery and how elitism builds exclusion. I mean, I tried really hard to understand her but she just drove me crazy and I wanted to throw the book (that I borrowed from a friend) and step on it with muddy shoes and I wanted to tie it with a brick and throw it away in a muddy dump.

We catch up with Millie-now-Millicent a year after her release and it's clear she doesn't know how to live in the modern world now she's finally out. Today Hibo finds herself working in London as an FGM campaigner, helping young girls whose families plan to take them abroad for the procedure. Most of the clues point in the direction of the last movie Millicent Spark worked on as a special effects artist, in the days before CGI offered easy (and fake) solutions. Hilary and her nursery have been featured in a variety of print media and TV footage, including the prestigious Gardens Illustrated and the BBC2 coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show 2018.

Tony, the tireless manager of a community centre, is fighting not only for the lives of local young people, but to keep the centre's doors open. She is constantly afraid if she has a daughter her mother or Yusuf’s family will insist on the girl being cut. Finally, I do not recommend this book to people who are struggling with self-injury or friends and family of people who are in this situation.

Sorry if I accidentally ripped a page, I got so angry at the book I didn't even know I was doing it. A shell of her former self, fearful anxious and agoraphobic, yet sharp even brutal with her tongue but nevertheless she feels out of place, depressed and off-kilter. A thoughtful novel that tries to get to the root of a difficult subject matter and does so with some success. The flashbacks to the 90s, around the time of the murder, were a bit harder to follow especially because of the large number of characters (I should have taken notes). Honestly this book really shows how little things impact other so much more that you had ever thought.

The story brings us to understand why our heroine felt depressed in the first place and why she starts to feel better - but gives little clue as to why the depression would lead someone to start cutting themselves - in this case, she just happens to stumble across a suitable weapon at a pinnacle of her desperation.

But if she's going to start feeling better, she'll have to start trusting those who can help her figure out how.

And the action comes thick and fast in the second half of this story, with the slight downside that more and more characters are introduced (thus forcing me to resort to note taking in an attempt to keep up). Although still maintaining her innocence, Millie has long given up on finding out what really happened and is going full steam ahead with her suicide plans. She had protested her innocence since the very beginning but no-one was interested and she served nearly a quarter of a century in prison.