The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
In many ways, she was as cool and competent as Henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof. Out in the country, it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once I found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees.



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