Dinah Jefferies uses vivid sensory detail throughout the novel. How did her descriptions of food, color, and landscape influence your engagement with the story? Which depictions did you find most impactful?
these fluffy descriptions seemed to be at the beginning of almost every chapter - to be honest, it was very annoying.
I didn’t mind the descriptions. The Mood was softened unrealistically by the sensory details, though. Fear, anger, loneliness, etc. didn’t seem as intense, which masked the emotions that the characters must have felt.
I didn’t mine the details except at times it was too wordy and did not stick with the plot.
I felt pretty neutral about the sensory detail. It mostly did not affect my engagement with the story. I would choose the landscape depiction as the piece with the most impact on me as the reader. This was just because it interested me.
I found some of these descriptions powerful but there were way too many and I found myself skimming through them, which I did not like
I found myself skimming descriptions at times. It got to be aa bit much.
I agree with Marcia_Sailer, I started skimming much of the content. Something I hardly EVER do.
I really liked all of the descriptions of Corfu especially the gardens and the water. I could actually smell the flowers 
I didn’t mind the repetition because I liked living there in my mind temporarily. It was an escape into another part of the world that I haven’t been to yet!
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The author excelled at painting the beauty and landscape of Corfu. It made me want to visit there.
I agree with the readers who found the “vivid” descriptions annoying and repetitive. I, too, began to skim–which I never do. Actually I thought of the whole book as a slog through meaningless words.