Finished this book in an absolute flurry, as I couldn't stand to go to bed without knowing the ending. Thought that it was wonderfully written; every page, every glance, every conversation, every movement formed so beautifully in my imagination. 
 This is the story of Elise, a young bourgeois Jewess, driven from her homeland of Vienna to the quaint English countryside of Tyneford. There she becomes a maid, and as the world changes in the midst of war, she is forced to change alongside it. Her story touched me in so many ways, and I am so glad I decided to pick this book up. I believe it will be quite a while before I find a book as memorizing as this.