This book is the LAST in an eighteen book series so it has the sort of “wrap up” quality you might expect in a book like this: a lot of nostalgia; a lot of retreading old story lines and some new facts about them; a decently happy ending even given the setting which is in and around London just after WWII when stuff was still a mess and there’s a lot of grimness. I was happy this series wrapped up right around when I was getting tired of it as being maybe a bit too precious and fairy tale.