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Coming up on my TBR pile. Loved @catherineabruton last take on Oliver Twist and suspect this will live up to every great expectation.Lockdown Library: Addictive, literary, brilliant. I felt the same way on finishing this that I did when I first read A Prayer for Owen Meany: elated and bereft and wanting to start it all over again. #themostfunweeverhadMars. Less whelming than I imagined. And oddly soporific.Lockdown Library: 10/10. Beautiful and astonishing, craft-wise and narrative-wise.Charity shop chic. May have taken it up an inch too much but fuck it. If one can’t get one’s pins out at 50, what’s the point of it all?Thirty-something years on, @frostik1 We turned out okay!Twitter
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Category Archives: romance
Sense and Sensibility (with bells on)
Firstly, a confession: until I came to be offered the opportunity to rewrite Sense and Sensibility, the closest I had come to Jane Austen was TV reruns of Mr Darcy emerging wet from a lake, and a reluctant trudge around … Continue reading
Posted in middle grade, Reading, romance, Teen, women's fiction
Tagged Dashwood, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby
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Bid on Bloody Everything
In a bid (oh come on) to raise money for Marie-Curie, whose nurses look after terminally ill patients and support their families, a bunch of authors are auctioning off signed and dedicated copies of latest releases, including books from Ruth … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, love, romance, women's fiction
Tagged 1970s, 1980s, Essex, Joanna Nadin, Mantle Books, Picador, Queen of Bloody Everything, signed copy
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