Swept Away

In the past few years I've been deliberately revisiting books I liked as a child. Not long ago, though, I stumbled on a book in a used bookstore that I hadn't read, but remembered from the library shelves and had wanted to read but never got to. At least I don't think I did: after fifty years I'm not always sure. But unlike some of the books I've reread, nothing in this one was familiar.The