Ok, I love this one a lot. It's an "escaping abuse" story, but while it does have its tense moments, it didn't set me on edge too much. The whole thing, except for the very beginning, felt stable and grounded and comforting. Obviously, Hester, the almost-old unmarried lady who likes poking people with her cane, used to breed geese and is trying to protect her easy to impress brother, is my favourite, but almost all the characters do their part to make this more cozy than horrifying. Bad things are done, and they're all caught in something hard to grasp and harder to research, but they're caught in it together and that's what matters. Very satisfying.