I've never read any of Brian Moore's work previously and honestly plan not to read him again. This book left me hanging in suspense and unsatisfied eventually. The ending was a huge disappointment, Marie's dilemma extremely repetitive and qutie honestly I just didn't get it. Perhaps not being a Catholic made this novel a muddled mass of seemingly unrelated incidents to me. I did not understand the accident and near-death of Marie's husband in relationship to her visions. It left me cold and wanting to return to what I consider better works.