2024: I remembered how good this book is, so I got it from the library and read it yesterday. Probably too fast, but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and I marked several quotes which I'll type up later.

Is Christ's sacrifice sufficient for all time? What does it mean to love? How can we forgive ourselves? What have ancient Briton gods and faeries to do with Christendom? This book is about all of this, but at its core, it is a book about how love of simple ordinary things (a house, a child, a woman's voice) can save us from horror and despair. And it's the story of a girl who refuses to let her mind be chained, even when she is imprisoned bodily. I want to write like Elizabeth Marie Pope.

If you like The Silver Chair or The Blue Sword or Jonathan Strange or The Witch of Blackbird Pond or anything by Rosemary Sutcliff, this is the book for you. (And if you don't, I'm so sorry for your terrible taste in books. You should try this one and see if it cures you.)

QUOTE COLLECTION!! I used to do these for all the books I read and in this case it's quite the necessity.