Caution: This book contains a rape scene as well as discussing the aftermath. It is handled in a sensitive way without explicit details.
A metaphorical Sleeping Beauty tale which has a young lady raped on her eighteenth birthday due to a curse from one of her numerous aunts. Unable to overcome the shock, she lies in her bed day after day almost in a comatose state. The house she lives in is surrounded by roses which her father allows to become overrun since the rape of his daughter. A young man she has been corresponding with, overcomes the rose mess and wins her back to reality. This is a heavy book even though it is very short. It deals with mature matters as the protagonist, Alice, asks herself whether she is the cause of the rape. Elements of the old fairy tale are present, but the book is brilliantly told in first person as journal entries from the “sleeping” girl.
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