Rating: 4 out of 5

This starts and ends really well with plenty of interest. A great story but they were definitely bits in the middle were I lost interest. It’s the kind of book that suits long reading sessions rather than being picked up for the odd chapter before bed.

Highlighted passages:

As the clock pointed to a quarter to seven, the dog woke and shook himself. After waiting in vain for the footman, who was accustomed to let him out, the animal wandered restlessly from one closed door to another on the ground-floor; and, returning to his mat in great perplexity, appealed to the sleeping family with a long and melancholy howl.

Change? I suppose I’m getting old. I don’t like change.”

The woman never lived yet who could cast a true-love out of her heart because the object of that love was unworthy of her.

I happen to have known you, George, since you were the height of my old telescope;

Originally posted to my Goodreads account