Review
"A page turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.”—Time

“A Gothic tour de force. . . . A tight, deftly controlled story . . . . Just as accomplished [as The Remains of the Day] and, in a very different way, just as melancholy and alarming.”—The New York Times

"Elegaic, deceptively lovely. . ....