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"Last night I dreamt I want to Maderley again..." What a cracking first chapter.

I thought I wasn't going to like this book at the beginning, but it has grown on me as I've read on. It is a slow burn Mexican Gothic. There's a tinge of Jane Eyre about it. The slow burn makes the creepiness more effective I think.

"Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will wither, die and scatter like yellow leaves from the trees...Oh, Nastenka! It till be sad, you know, to be left alone, quite alone, and not even have something to regret - nothing, absolutely nothing..."

This is likely to be a slow burn read. I'm picking it up as and when I'm in the mood. I picked this up as John Clare got mentioned in one of the Forward Poetry Prize Collections I read and I realised I had this collection sitting on my shelf unread.