Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.

I'll have to try it! I have so many unread books in my house -some by Waugh, some by Mauve Binchy.
What did I read instead, recently? A foolish fantasy (an ARC via NetGalley).
Note to self: if you can see on page one that the protagonist is obtuse and annoying, STOP READING.

Aisling Doyle is sick of secrets. Still aching after her tight-lipped mom’s recent passing, the forty-five-year-old feels lost when her husband leaves her for a younger woman. But after having an angry nightmare where she pushed him down the stairs, she’s horrified to learn he has perished in a hauntingly similar fatal accident. Worried her disturbing visions from childhood hold twisted power, Aisling flees home to Ireland to dig into her heritage. And when her maternal relatives reveal their bloodline traces back to a powerful Celtic goddess, she fears someone is setting her up for murder. As she delves into ancient dangers, will she find redemption or become a villain’s sacrifice? The Dreammasters is the dark first book in the Of Gods and Monsters paranormal women’s fiction series. If you like strong-willed heroines, otherworldly evils, and Irish myths, then you’ll adore KD Pryor’s black-edged fantasy.

Aisling ("Ashling") is obtuse and annoying, and the book ends on a total cliff hanger after many pages of watching this middle aged woman "training" - a crash course in magic, so she can rescue some guy from the Underworld. It was all SO STUPID.... but yeah I read the whole book, skimming only the long descriptions of antiques in the attic.