I absolutely loved this one. It's long and it starts a bit slow, but after about 1/3 of the book I felt resentful towards my other reads because I only wanted to read this. You see where everyone is going to end and it's a bit Dickensian in the sense that everyone is connected to someone else, but it's the countryside so very believable. Didn't know how to feel initially about Dorothea, that mix of religion, devotion and wanting ⬇️