I lost my breath. A mystery that teeters on the fantastical and an emotional centre that broke my heart. Written with beautiful, rich imagery throughout. The protagonist sometimes feels very modern for her seventeen-century setting, but it didn’t pull me out of it. Rather, the mild anachronism of her being felt like Burton had created a keyhole to allow the modern reader to peep through. To see and to understand this world, and these characters. It’s the pair of converse in Versailles, and it works.