I’m going to have a hard time not going on and on and sounding like the blurbs on the back of a novel for this one. “Lyrical!” “Masterpiece!” “A tour-de-force!” ect. ect. without ever saying anything of substance. It is also, I realized quite a bit after reading it, another book about a magical house. I do like magical houses. So here we go, this is what it’s about: June Hudson manages The Avallon, a luxury hotel in the mountains of West Virginia. Living from her teens in