I liked this book.
The story starts with a woman named Edie in the 1990's. Edie finds out that as a child, her mother was sent to live at Milderhurst Castle during WWII. Though her mother is not forthcoming with details, Edie decides to track down more information. What she finds is a mysterious family - elderly twin sisters who never married and their younger sister, never quite "right" after her fiance breaks off their engagement.
The book alternates between the 1990's and the 1940's, crafting a complicated story around the three sisters and their relationships, glimpsed for a few years by Edie's mom and then later by Edie. The castle itself is somewhat of a character as well, richly described and harboring lots and lots of family secrets. Nothing in the story is what it seems - the twin sisters are very different from each other and their motives in life are not revealed right away. And the seminal moment in the story - the evening when the younger sister's fiance does not show for dinner - is extraordinarily suspenseful.
The first two-thirds of the book were really good, but the juicy stuff is in the payoff. A well-done homage to the great Gothic stories...
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