We are All Completely Beside Ourselves (by Karen Joy Fowler)

I didn’t remember the name Karen Joy Fowler, although I later realised that I did read one of her books (‘The Jane Austen Book Club’) over a decade ago. But when I saw ‘We are all completely beside ourselves’ at a church book sale last year, with some positive reviews and a note that it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, I decided to buy it. 

I had no idea what the book would be about when I started to read it; the blurb on the back is a little vague, describing a girl called Rosemar...