As soon as I got started on your book I sped through it, carried along at first by the details of Emma's limited life and narrow horizons, her warm relationship with Bob and the contrast with her confident, charismatic sister. And just when I thought I had the measure of the book, as a kind of study of loneliness, the plot suddenly turned on a sixpence into something darker and more alarming and I had to know how the characters' stories linked together and played out. I very much believed in Emma's emotional frigidity and her distaste for modernity, and I was glad that she was allowed to thaw at last. Many congratulations on a subtle and moving novel; I hope it does really well for you.