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A Mad Mother and a ‘Well Hidden’ Family
Queen Victoria was on the throne of England when William Peacock married Miranda Mirova. The couple are very young, barely out of childhood, but he is the precociously talented editor of a literary magazine and she is the most famous ballet dancer of generation. All goes well until baby Clare is born, when Miranda no…
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Woods, Sea and Stars…
Woods etc. has a rather plain cover, so instead,here is a picture in Seawood, at Bardsea, Cumbria. I love Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’, and ‘A Sleepwalk On The Severn’, which are both long poems, but hadn’t read any of her shorter work, so I was pleased when I spotted her collection Woods etc. in the library,…
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Lupins, Radishes, and Triangular Dances
August has come, and has clothed the hills with golden lupins, and filled the grassy banks with harebells. The yellow fields of lupins are so gorgeous on cloudless days that I have neglected the forests lately and drive in the open, so that I may revel in their scent while feasting my eyes on their…
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Told By An Idiot
Rose Macaulay’s Told By An Idiot was a bit of a disappointment. I had high hopes of it, because I love ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ so much but, sadly, this wasn’t in the same league, and left me feeling depressed, not only about the characters and their lives, but about the human condition in general.…
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A Tale of WW2 That Will Break Your Heart
If you’re the kind of person who cries over books, make sure you’ve got a large hanky ready and waiting when you read Alison Pick’s Far To Go, because it’s beautifully written, totally gripping – and very, very sad. Set in Czechoslovakia in the final few months before the outbreak of the Second World War,…
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