Have just started reading this after a serious book drought of about 3 years (er coincidentally ds was born 3 years ago...)
Am only about 50 pages in but am finding such a sense of sadness, beauty and foreboding in it already that I am going to bed tonight with a box of tissues just in case something happens which is too unbearably beautiful for me to cope with and I cry.
Has anyone else read this? Last night I read the part where the boys parents are courting and visit the crypt of glass topped coffins and see the abbess's withered old bones- it was such an evocative bit that I dreamt about it all night.