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The genre for this book is gothic novel. It was my mother's favorite kind of book. Because I didn't want to go against my mom, and because it was at least a way to have books to read, I read a plethora of gothic novels as a teen. In fact, it was just about the only sort of story I read.

So lots of elements of this story were familiar to me: the governess who comes to live with a family, a remote castle-like home, the mists of the moors, a silent bachelor, strange servants, possible ghosts, mysterious death, the elevated language.

The gothic elements put me off a bit because of overfamiliarity; that won't happen to you, I imagine, so set that aside. It's related, for the most part, as if the various characters are telling the stories of their lives, talking right to the reader, and that's quite appealing and quite novel. The sense of mystery and all the questions in my head kept me reading along at a brisk pace.

It was a satisfying book.