I gobbled this book up, to the neglect of other things -- including sleep.

The narrator, Katherine, is young and naive, and you see the world through her eyes as she tries to make sense of it. She's catapulted from a quiet, country existence of the gentry into her uncle, the Duke's, eccentric and improper household. All rather improbable, I suppose, but I was too taken with her and her story to notice.