I loved this. It was dark, in its own way, but subtly - not in the sort of creeping, ominous way that In the Woods was dark. The writing was also less poetically beautiful. Still, the story was well told, and it pulled me in in a way that The Witch Elm did not. I might even buy this one, as I did In the Woods, and I don’t generally buy novels. French is a very good author.