Bought my copy at Edinburgh airport at the start of a long journey, have always enjoyed this author's stories, and this was no exception. Between sitting in four different airports, (pausing for aircraft meals and in flight dozing) the story kept me reading and helped the journeys pass very quickly.
Graphic description of the agony of child abuse, eccentric behaviour and the danger of hastily jumping to conculsions. These days most of us have seen the dramatic results of extremist behaviour, so the story kept me entralled in the heorine's world right to the last page.
Yes, it is a romance, of sorts, but much much more. I was in there with the characters right from the start.