Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey

This is a very short novel about an Irish family, written from the point of view of one of the children, whom everybody calls Tatty. The narrative is very clever because it does sound like a child's voice. The family are disfunctional and it is very sad to be viewing the family's relationships through the eyes of a child. I quite enjoyed this although I am not sure why as it is quite depressing and a little bit scarey to think that is how children view the adult world. I don't think this is the book of the year and to be honest it would probably be most interesting for a child psycolgist. Not really a beach read and if you have children you will probably find these even more depressing than I did.