This is a wheeling reeling mad trip of a book. Horrific yet heart warming, violent but tender, and utterly unputdownable. The language of it is Lewis Carroll, but trippier, madder, and drenched in blood and pain. The characters are familiar yet new, and the plot is inevitable yet satisfying. 
 Alice's PTSD is compellingly drawn, and oozes through the pages and into your mind. It's incredibly skilfully done. There are some really, truly horrible things depicted in this book - really REALLY awful - and for that reason I couldn't recommend it for all. It's got a lot of rape in - but it's never depicted as anything other than stomach-churningly awful. There's no titilation here. 
 And by God it spoke to me. If you can cope with the telling, Alice is the heroine all us PTSD-ridden broken girls need. 
 I devoured it in an afternoon. 5/5 with all my heart.