To The Last Page

The book’s title is from a story by Hans Christian Andersen, but the reality of being the Marsh King’s Daughter is anything but a fairy-tale for Helena Eriksson. As a child, Helena lived the first 12 years of her life in a remote cabin in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, unaware that her mother is actually a prisoner, kidnapped when she was a 14 year old child by Jacob Holbrook, the man she knows only as her father. Twelve years in captivity in the wilderness - not even knowing that it was captivity - has been hard, but not as hard as adjusting to a normal life with other people and with the press interest when Helena and her mother finally manage to escape from the clutches of the man who would become known as the Marsh King. There’s a whole other story in there about growing up in the wilderness, completely isolated from normal society and having to learn to adapt to the culture shock of a whole other unfamiliar and unsettling way of life. There’s also more uncomfortable questions that s...