Rating: 5 out of 5

I enjoy the descriptive and transportative nature of Sarah Waters work. This time feeling the darkness and grime of a prison in the 1870s, and the grief and sorrow of a Lady Visitor. Nicely written with an interweaving of two stories, both told as diary entries.

Highlighted passage:

a book may be on any queer subject, but one can at least always be certain how to turn a page and read it.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account