Loved this book. Now go read it. 
 Although I'm not sure whether to warn away people prone to depression or encourage them to pick this up as a soothing balm. It is morose at the best of times and cantankerous nearly all the time. Miriam is a perfect anti hero, very similar to Caitlin Kieran's creation of sioban quinn, which I also liked. Then again most of Kieran's heroine's are written like that, but these two chickens could be sisters.