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The Romance of A Shop by Amy Levy
This is a lovely story of four sisters, set in Victorian London. They are the daughters of a photographer, and when he dies and leaves them with very limited means they decide that, rather being...
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Flight by Isabel Ashdown
‘Flight’ – Isabel Ashdown’s fourth novel – is an engaging and emotional story, exploring the ties – and the breaking of the ties – between three people. Wren, Rob and Laura. Rob and Laura became the...
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Modesta by G B Stern
I do wish that I could see more people reading more of G B Stern’s books. I know that ‘The Matriarch’ is back in print, in a lovely new editions; I know that the two books about all things Austen that...
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The Meeting Place by Mary Hocking
I’m very pleased that when I went to look for a book to read for Mary Hocking Reading Week I found ‘The Meeting Place’, her final novel, published in 1996. As I read I found much to love, much to...
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The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
This is a lovely little book: a bittersweet romantic comedy that captivated me from the very first page. A young woman, Laure, arrives home late at night, after dinner with friends. As she arrives at...
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The Innocent and the Guilty by Sylvia Townsend Warner
This is a very slim volume, it holds just nine short stories, and it is a little gem. Because Sylvia Warner was so very good at short stories; a mistress of the art. She brought such imagination to...
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Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed
The name ‘Praed’ speaks to me of home: because it is very much a Cornish name, and because we have a number of paintings of familiar places, painted by an artist of that name, in out home. That was why...
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Song of the Sea Maid by Rebecca Mascull
This is a beautifully written story, it speaks profoundly, and I know that I am going to go on thinking about it for a very long time. It begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, with a girl...
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Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey
‘Vain Shadow’ was Jane Hervey’s first novel; written in the 1950s but put away and not published until 1963, and now reissued as a Persephone book. It tells a very simple story; the story of an English...
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Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
I realise that I may be the last person in the world to read ‘Burial Rites’, Hannah Kent’s much lauded debut novel. It caught my eye a long time ago, when it was newly published, I acquired a copy, but...
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