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Two versions of interwar pastoral

August 27, 2021 0 Comments
Two versions of interwar pastoral

The charity shops have yielded two beautiful books in succession.  Both, as it happens, are novels in which first-person narrators look back, many years afterwards, to painful turning points in their lives in the English countryside between the two world wars. Melissa Harrison was much praised in 2018 for her astonishingly detailed picture of a […]

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