An engaging book, some mystery, great character development and story.

This book generated more talk on various topics, relationships, addiction, love, creativity, mental health, women's roles in society than many we have read. We liked it!

Everyone in our group really liked this book. Living as we do in the area in which this book takes place made it especially poignant. The characters were very well developed introverts which makes many contemporary readers uncomfortable. It was a slow paced book about a time and place when people lived in a slower, more deliberate way. The author did a fantastic job of making the reader understand and feel how disconcerting anything but the change of seasons can be to people who live isolated from city life, in the solitude of nature.