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A Barrowful of Bacon, and Coffee by the Tubload
It’s September, and Elizabeth von Arnim’s Solitary Summer has run its course with the arrival of 500 soldiers (and their horses), who are being quartered at the farm, and 30 officers (plus their servants) who are staying in the house. In addition there are other officers billeted in surrounding villages who must be invited to…
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True Love and a Happy Ending
When Hetty Longden arrives at her boyfriend’s cottage and finds him in bed with another woman she rips up the embroidered antique sheet which covers the couple, and drives into his expensive Porsche, wrecking her own car in the process. Heart-broken, she abandons job and flat, and retreats to her parents’ home. But her mother,…
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Consequences – Beware of Spoilers
If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite happy to know the outcome in advance – indeed, sometimes I even sneak a peek…
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Literary Landscapes and Broken Computers
September is here, and I am all behind-hand with everything, and my posts have been a little erratic – but the past few weeks seem to have been a permanent holiday, and we have had a wonderful time. First we took a trip to Cumbria, where I did lots of reading, but internet connections were…
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An Island Fit For a Crime Queen
Burgh Island Hotel inspired one of Agatha Christie’s mostfamous crime mysteries This wonderful art deco hotel is on Burgh Island, in Devon, and was the setting for two novels by crime queen Agatha Christie, who lived in Devon and stayed at the hotel on occasions. We admired the building, which looks a bit like a…
The Book Trunk 