Having read “A long way to a small angry planet” last year, I finally got around to finishing the second in the Wayfarer series. I have to say it took me a while to warm to it – it was one of those books I picked up, read a bit, then dropped for a while in favour of something else – but eventually I not only finished it but really enjoyed it. There are some really interesting themes here: parenthood, identity, what it means to be a person, and they are all handled beautifully (one part had me in tears). Definitely recommended, and the good bit is it’s a standalone story so you don’t have to have read anything else in the series first, even though it follows on from events in “A long way…”.