Six Degrees From The Lottery to A Burning
The starting point for this month’s Six Degrees of Separation chain seems a fittingly dark piece of fiction for the
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Penelope Lively
Family Album by Penelope Lively — chinks in the idyll
To outsiders, the sprawling Edwardian villa called Allersmead seems the perfect family home. A bit ramshackle. A tad chaotic. But
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Reading Horizons: October 2019 What I’m reading now Abir Mukherjee is about to publish the fourth book in his crime
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Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively: Nature of Memory
An elderly woman recalls a love affair that was the defining moment of her life
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I had a little indulgence while on my trip to the USA earlier this year and ended up with more
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