The tagline
‘everybody makes mistakes’ really sums up the journey this book takes you on.
Letty is a young single mum who feels inadequate to look after her children.
But after her parents leave, she if left to fend her herself with a young
daughter and a teenage son. ‘We Never Asked for Wings’ is a book of self-discovery
at all ages, and how the past is just that. It affects us but it is how we move
on from it that matters.
The obvious
mistake that Letty makes is that she has children. But more than that, the
initial neglect and detachment of this responsibility. Her son Alex, as a young
boy learns, sometimes the hard way, that it is not always best to do what is ‘right’.
In this way it appears that these characters’ mirror each other although their
stories are different. Even though the characters all makes mistakes, it makes
them more human and relatable and I really feel in love with them.
Five-star
book, which I read in one sitting! It was a beautifully written and mesmerising
book. It was such a simple concept of family dynamic, but more than that it was
a story of discovery, hope and ultimately forgiveness that will stay with me
for a while to come.
