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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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JoAnn @ Lakeside Musing

I listened to almost 5 CDs of the audio version in the car today, and wish I had that much driving time again tomorrow. Since that will not be the case, I may need to download it to my kindle… it's wonderful so far!

Mrs. Pom

I am saving it for Christmas vaca. Along with the 5th addition in the Cazalet Chronicles. I'm going to have to read quickly to finish both in 4 days!

Cornflower

It's a great read, and I applaud EG for the depth of her research and for the way she has incorporated that wealth of material in the narrative.

Cornflower

That's a lot of reading, but also a lot to look forward to!

Caroline

I can't wait to read it! Thank you for such a great post (as ever)!

Cornflower

Pleasure!

litlove

I enjoyed it very much too! I though Alma was a wonderful heroine, not a strong woman for the sake of appeasing modern gender ideology, but a woman whose exceptional situation made her strong, and then forced her to realise how strong she was.

Cornflower

Yes!
I loved all the botany, too, and it was a stroke of brilliance to put Alma in that family/world - it made for such richness.

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