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Utterly satisfying and very acute, especially about the emotional freight carried inside families. A con-man in a wheelchair latches on to a desolate widow (spoilers courtesy of the blurb for the edition that I read), and many lives are changed as a result.

I'd read reviews of the recent biography of Blackwood that made her sound like a very scary woman, and a friend who had met her confirmed that, yes, she could be - but also emphasised that she was well worth reading. So I bought this book but put off reading it because the cover seemed forbidding, but in fact the book was thoroughly engaging, and, in its way, quite cosy. I will be reading more Blackwood.