i started out thinking this was going to be an enjoyable but somewhat light gothic romance- the huge estate, the sadistic servant, the distant and brooding husband, haunted rooms and hidden meanings in even the smallest gestures.often we slip into our nameless heroine's imaginings of things that have or might happen, mostly rooted in her well founded insecuritiesthen suddenly, in a few pages, everything shifts. what follows is a very different, disturbing view of the world our characters inhabit. an impressive, spooky story.