Very funny at times. An excellent parody of Hardy and a good story on its own. Gibbons describes the landscape in terms relating to the person involved: when Seth appears, the fog is lusty and penetrating. With Amos, it's always cold and dark. Gibbons marks the particularly good paragraphs with two or three asterisks, the way hotels are graded in travel guides. She must have had great fun writing it, and it was a quick, fun read.