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Isobel Moore is on her own for the first time at age 30, after her father's death, and after spending her life pleasing and serving him, she's finally able to please herself. But this turns out to be more difficult than she expected. I really liked the turn this took toward the end, where Isobel has to question her own motives again and again. And Gordon's attitude toward Catholicism is complex in a way that I appreciated.

"How did I become, at thirteen, such a monster of certainty? My sureness was imperial; at thirteen I could have led armies."

Love that image of a certain kind of youthful certainty.