59%
The beautiful cover is probably the most memorable thing about this story. Fluently written by an experienced author, yes, but... the characters were clearly supposed to be complex but they weren't, and certainly none of them were sympathetic - it was just more rich people drama. Admittedly, I didn't see the double twist coming but the rest of the book bent itself into unlikely knots trying to explain it - and the lack of introspection that followed from the apparently intelligent characters just didn't ring true.
Interestingly, I gave Tulip Fever, the only other Moggach novel I've read, the same score 19 years ago.
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