The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Review
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender: My Review Rating: 5/5 stars I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life's ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn't want to hurt you eventually would. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is, as its title suggests, a strange and beautiful book. It's also a book that came along, stole my heart and smashed it to smithereens - in other words, it has become one of my favourites of all time. This book is magical realism at its very finest, at the height of its potential. Walton writes in a way that is inexplicably bittersweet with the ability to make you smile and break your heart in a single sentence. There is this melancholy, almost sinister but beautiful atmosphere that permeates every