Before posting this, I feel I should mention that I overwrote the review I drafted immediately after finishing this book. Said draft has achieved mythic status in my mind. I'm sure I expressed myself wonderfully in it. What I have to offer here is what I scrambled up from memory.

Well Done, Denehurst!: Gwendoline Courtney. Girls Gone By publishers. 2005

But Avice did not answer. She was staring in perplexity at her captor. Then suddenly recognition showed in her eyes.

"You!" she gasped. "So it's you!"

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