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Aug 9, 20231 min read
1084. Marghanita Laski - Little Boy Lost
Another very good book, although completely different. Set just after the end of the 2nd World War, Hilary Wainwright is an ex-British...
Aug 5, 20221 min read
1002. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
This was on TV recently, a modern adaptation of a book written in the 1950s, so I thought I would read the book. The adaptation changes...
Mar 22, 20151 min read
290. Penny Feeny - That Summer In Ischia
Superior chic lit really. Quite a good plot, about the current lives of a couple of gels who went child-minding in Italy in the late 70’s...
Feb 6, 20151 min read
280. Elizabeth Jane Howard - Marking Time
Book 2 of the above. This focuses sporadically on three of the daughters, Louisa, Polly and Clary. Louisa, who is a little older, has...