The atmospheric style of this book invites you onto a journey that you want to carry on reading. The nuanced detail in it is rather beautiful, it offers a peak into this world and you, the reader, are a bystander looking in. The cover of the book fits in with the writing style - atmospheric, rich, but also at a distance. I could pick up on the subtones in the book, the complexities created for the characters at the discomfort of what is happening in the world around them. The extract finishes just at the point where you want to experience more with the main character, a heavy uncomfortable feeling as you know from history what is to happen, but yet you want to discover it on this journey with him. I would love to find out more.