I’m happy to say that my third encounter with Sylvia Townsend Warner’s prose has been as happy as those with Kingdoms of Elfin and Lolly Willowes - see reviews: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/970443.Kingdoms_of_Elfin and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/937105.Lolly_Willowes_Or_the_Loving_Hunt...