The secrets of Wishtide

While I detested this author's Five Children on the Western Front (I couldn't read more than a couple of chapters because she got the Psammead so wrong), I was willing to try her again with this Victorian mystery and was pleasantly diverted. I thought she did a respectable job with the literary voice while still inserting some rather modern social commentary via the perspective of an independent-minded widow. There was rather a pile-up of Victorian lit and/or murder mystery tropes by the end (an Afterword reveals that the book is actually based on a subplot from David Copperfield), and most of the characters were fairly generic and forgettable, but I'd read another book with Mrs. Rodd in it.