Nobody cares about a child killer, not even in a place like Fellside so when Jess Moulson is brought in on hunger strike, nobody cares whether she lives or not. But there are ghosts at Fellside who do care and one of them finds Jess; now Jess must live up to her promise to help the ghost find out what really happened on that night and who really killed him. 
 I absolutely loved "The Girl with all the Gifts" and so was desperate to read "Fellside". If you are like me, be warned that they are totally different novels but I did still enjoy "Fellside" if not quite as much. 
 The action centres on "G Block" at "Fellside", a women's prison. There have been quite a few TV programs in this genre released recently, but luckily "Fellside" makes it's own way and although some of the personalities are not dissimilar to those on the TV, this is more because of the nature of the place I think, and what is likely to happen there. 
 There are, of course, the usual prisoner who everyone is scared of (Harriet Grace) and corrupt guard (Devlin) but there is also a lot of action in the infirmary as Jess does spend quite a lot of time there, and some time in court and with lawyers which was also quite interesting. 
 To be honest though, I think I enjoyed this novel less because I didn't really feel for any of the characters. Jess was the one I felt I ought to know the most about but I don't feel I did, meaning that when bad things threatened her, I didn't really feel to worried about it. I liked the character of "Alex" but he is also quite hard to be too invested in as his personality is also quite unclear. 
 In the end, I did like this book but I didn't love it. I'll certainly read another one by M R Carey though, as his novels are clearly anything but predictable!