I got quite far into the novel but I could not finish it. I've enjoyed Richard Adams works before but this one felt more like a weird dream, made little sense and I had problems taking something significant out of it. I thought it was going to be more romantic and erotic/sensual kind of story but it made no sense. There where parts of this that really put me out of the story and what made me take the book down for good was a "sex" scene that seemed far from consensual but was brushed away far to lightly for my liking. I couldn't feel a connection between the couple and I'm not quite sure what I actually read to be honest and I really tried to get into it. Wouldn't recommend this book as the first one to pick up by Richard Adams