Loved this book, but no surprise. It's full of people knowing and not knowing odds and ends about their parents and grandparents, something which fascinates me. And it has something I really love: the sense that the characters are engaged in time-travel while firmly rooted in their own time. The time-travel happens through stories and books and engravings and walls and cottages and cemeteries,and feels completely real to me. Wish I were still reading it.