“…truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognise, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.”

So what is the truth about Rachel? What did she do and why is she really here? Or is she innocent and our narrator simply unreliable? These are the questions that will drive the reader to distraction in this charming spooky and atmospheric Gothic tale.

Recommended to anyone who liked Rebecca or liked other authors’ Gothic Stories such as Jane Eyre. Not quite as good as either in my opinion but close enough for government work as my old boss used to say.