A Room with a View

The first time I tried to read this it made me very angry indeed, because I somehow didn't notice that it was tongue-in-cheek and found all the etiquette palaver tiresome. Exasperated, I stopped reading it half way through, and it wad my unfinished book nemesis for years.

Then I picked it up again, found it quite light hearted and pleasant after all and ended up devouring it. I enjoyed how the intensity of emotion is largely undescribed - referred to as “the darkness” - the reader implicitly understands how to fill in the gaps from their own experience of this feeling.