3.5 stars really. Lovely descriptions of the landscape - this time mostly of Denmark - which I've come to expect and enjoy from Stegner, but the structure didn't quite work for me. The narrator, Joe Allston, finds a diary from a visit to Denmark where he discovers the horrific secrets of an aristocratic family. That story was really interesting, what didn't grab me quite so much was when Joe was back home in California and musing on growing old. I felt like a lot of that had been covered in All The Little Live Things which also features Joe Allston as the narrator.