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What the critics say

[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations...Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word.
- Guardian

This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period
- Times

An unusual and moving novel in which courage and abnegation are pitted against illicit but total love...a poised and well-judged work
- Financial Times

[A] powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire
- Observer