My mind won’t rest and my guts churn as I resist putting down ‘The Styx’, Patricia Holland’s first novel, launched last week in Yeppoon. Written to honour her daughter Sophie who died at the age of seven from the debilitating Retts Syndrome, Patricia has kept me on edge, shocked, anguished and distraught as I try to determine fact from fiction, in this authentic tale of Australian Gothic fiction. Sophie, you are indeed a hero. As well, the book cover and its texture are divine.