I enjoyed this book. A Gothic novel with two main stories. One of biographer, Margaret Lea, an antique book-dealers daughter and the story of her subject, novelist Vida Winter. The secretive Ms. Winter has one hell of a past to document filled with enough obsession, jealousy, loss, madness, experimentation, manipulation, death, lies and secrets to make you feel a whole lot better about your own life and family. There were times I felt uncomfortable about the subject matter, though not enough to stop reading, but written in Setterfield's shadowy hand I came to understand that their can be something sinister about little girls, disturbing about governesses and plain evil about people and the places they occupy. It took me a while to get into it and sometimes I wanted to scream JUST TELL ME ALREADY! but all in all a good read, full of suspense and tragedy and weirdness.