A spellbinding coming of age tale

 

⭑⭑⭑⭑  The Beauty of Impossible Things delivers its story with a dream-like quality, much like gently tipping into sleep lying in a warm patch of sunshine. It's a coming of age story about Natasha, an unusual girl who has powers of precognition and can sense some things before they happen. This novel takes place the blisteringly hot summer she was fifteen. Strange blue lights arrive and can be seen on the ridge above the seaside town she and her beautiful mother live in. She takes it as a warning though what it truly means no one can say for certain. Natasha may be right as events unfold that will change her world and those around her.

This novel possesses a peaceful lyrical quality that weaves a spell around that eventful summer and what it meant to Natasha whilst she reflects on it thirty years after the fact. I was swept away with the astute Natasha and her rather enchanting mother as they live their off kilter existence amongst the locals making money off summer visitors to their seaside town. Though not a lot happens the story holds on the reader and continues to drug the reader with its siren song.

An enchanting novel, it would be best read in the heat of summer, lounging in the shade enjoying a chilly glass of wine.