Whatcha readin'?

I have just finished reading "The Dean's Watch" by Elizabeth Goudge. She describes depression as one familiar with it; but describes faith in familiar terms too.
Her book is filled with strong, real characters, and I can do no better than to offer two excerpts. One offers her characteristic eye for detail; the other, the way she builds character:

"The sun soon conquered the mist and Isaac, as he passed under the great elms of the Close, looked up and Saw pale gold leaves trembling against the blue of the sky... The frost had weakened their hold and even such a faint touch [of the breeze] was too much for them. One after another they came slowly spinning down and one or two touched Isaac's upturned face in falling... How well Isaac knew these scents of autumn and the butterfly touch of falling leaves upon his face, sad or happy as his mood might be. Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's moods as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness."

This comes after a chapter describing this character's growth to this point: "And so she was happy in old age and vastly amused to find herself a personage in the city, almost an institution, beloved, revered, and apparently the hostess of a salon. ... When she looked back on the unloved girl she had been, on the toiling drone of her middle years, on the shabby prayerful recluse of her elderly years, it was all beyond her comprehension. But she enjoyed it and with a slightly mocking amusement dressed up for the part with velvet shoes on her feet and lace about her shoulders and over her head. She knew her own worthlessness and so did God, though he loved her none the less, and this false ideas of her that the city had got into its head was a private joke between them."

Her books reach deep into your soul, healing and touching and gentle, even when sad. April 1 is the anniversary of her death, and later in the month it is the anniversary of her birth in 1900.