Let's discuss please! It is a favorite, but it is dizzying in that I cannot quite wrap my brain around Sarah's character. She is a true enigma, which may be the point-- in so many ways, she represents the era of which she was a by-product.

Thoughts? Favorite quotes? I want it all!

It was an interesting book. I had mixed feelings about Sarah, a part of me wanted to like her, but I thought what she did seducing a man who was enganged was wrong even if the couple was mismatched.

At first I found the strong voice of the author within the work to be distracting but after a while I began to get use to it and got more into the story. I do like the way in which it was written as sort of a 20th century study of the Victorian Era.

Throughout most the story I really despised Charles, though I feel that he did ultimately the right thing in the end by breaking it off with Erestina instead of marrying her and proceeding to have an affiar behind her back. Though she was perhaps the "typical" victorian woman and not likeable in a since, I always was drawn to feel sorry for her in how she was treated for it was rather unfairly.