Du Maurier is an incredible writer! Her prose is beautiful and poetic and illustrative and elicits so many intense emotions!! However, I found the early middle to be a bit slow and the ending to be a bit rushed. I wish we got more description of the drama the narrator was witnessing towards the end and a more striking view of what she was witnessing on the final page of the book. I also was not fully convinced Max did love the narrator after all (although this very well could be intentional because the narrator was not fully convinced either).