A review by bucherca49
A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell
4.0
Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" provides the epigraph, title, and theme of this novel.
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, . . .
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, . . .