Oooooh this was good! I read a lot of Joanne Harris a few years back, then lost my way a bit and I‘m not sure why. This has the great combination and balance of a very English academia, gothic spookiness, darkness, magic and ghosts that I remember from the earlier books in this series, but with added feminism. Overall just a really great story in the way Joanne Harris does so well; I sank into it and soaked it up and enjoyed every bit of it.