Somehow, I always forget what a good storyteller JW is. Not just a writer, and she is a good writer, but someone who compels, who entrances you with her words. She jumps in time, in place, in topic, quoting one moment and confessing the most intimate of secrets the next (or maybe they are the same, aren't the words we remember best as much a revelation as the ones we make up ourselves...). 
 I have a bunch of quotes and a rattled brain with a Northern accent stuck in it so I will be brief: this is amazing.