Book Review: The Gleam in the North

I intended to wait till the Flight of the Heron readalong was over to read The Gleam in the North, but Friday was SO COLD that I ended up reading all day in the attic (inexplicably the warmest room in House?), and what I felt like reading was The Continuing Adventures of the Ill-Starred Jacobites.

It’s impossible to discuss this book without spoilers for both it and The Flight of the Heron, so ( Behind the spoiler cut we go. )