Turn of the Screw. Jamie Fraser. David Foster Wallace. Shakespeare. Well-constructed sentences. Leonard Cohen. Captain Wentworth. Neruda. Hemingway. Chapter 21 of Jane Eyre. Clive Staples. Tolkien. Melina Marchetta. Big, fat Russian novels. New words. And honey in my tea.
I should have figured out from the quote on the front: "a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish" that I would be totally haunted by this book. It's beautifully written, and terribly sad.