The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Paperback)

from LynnB

Wow! This book is written in the voice of Alice, the ultimate unreliable narrator. Alice and her "kid brother" live an isolated life with their father. She has a unique view of the world, which she has pieced together as best as possible from old books and her father's deranged teachings. This is...

from Wordsnark

I thought that "The Immaculate Conception" by Soucy was a stunning book. This one is better: more accessible, more profound, funnier, and more inventive. Soucy is being compared to Samuel Beckett (and Italo Calvino, Paul Auster), with good reason. I plan to read all four of his books available in...

from lkernagh

Soucy's slim novel, at a mere 138 pages, packs quite the suspenseful wallop. A finalist for France's Prix Renaudot and told in narrative form, the story is focused on two siblings that have been raised on an immense country estate completely isolated from the outside world by their authoritarian ...

from Severn

The reality Soucy has created seems to progress on a swift timeline from fascinating, and strangely compelling, to downright disturbing in the last third of the book. In this, the author has definitely mastered suspense. However, because of the swift progression the novel can appear, at times, to...

from ErickaS

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches is a novel by Canadian writer Gaetan Soucy. The story begins with two siblings living on a large estate alone with their father. When the father dies suddenly, the children know they have to take care of the burial, which means leaving the estate, which...