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About writing:

"Perhaps such secrets, the secrets of everyone, were only expressed when the person laboriously dragged them into the light of the world, imposed them on the world, and made them a part of the world’s experience. Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness;"

Wonderful

I can certainly see this was her first published novel but there are still flashes of the Austen brilliance.

A bit obvious, but I like the way the dark notes are added only gradually, like the drops before the approaching storm