Ooooh there is a copy of Life Mask on my TBR shelf; this makes me want to get to it ASAP! (There's also a copy of Frog Music, even though I have a general rule that I can only buy a book by a given author if I have no unread books by that author already in my possession: trust Donoghue to somehow do an end-run around that.) Anyway thanks for the great review.