The novel begins quite promisingly as I do love the prose. It is poetic and just beautiful in description of setting and especially, of feelings. The first hundred pages went by rather quickly but then I had to go back to work and I found that even 50 pages of this after work was a bit of a slog. It was just so wordy and the atmosphere weren't particularly cheerful so I had to switch to something lighter. 

While there were so specific timelines on either side of past and present, the story itself is told from a myriad number of people within these two time settings. They are all important as they each play a role in tracing history or the truth hidden that's been hidden in time. All these characters were interesting but I also had to work hard to remember who's who! This tome is almost 600 pages!

This author is a bit hit and miss with me so while I do love her writing, I don't really like her 'twists'. She seems to know just how to get to the heart of things that truly hurt. It's a heartwrenching ending though hopefully a light is coming to shine upon it. And yes, there's another thing, some things are just left hanging...