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In Defence of the Act
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2023
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4 editions
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En finir avec les jours noirs
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2023
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"Audiobook - 4.5 rounded up. I loved, listened to it so fast, protagonist was likeable and felt real. Interesting story about imperfect (sometimes dangerously so) people and the good and bad bits of them.
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"This book was probably a pretty firm 3/5* up until about halfway through. Then, something seemed to flip, and I couldn't get enough of it - hence 4*. By the end of the book, I felt really close to the narrator, I felt the journey she'd been on, and -"
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"A painful tale of family and loss. Very real, very gritty"
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"I could not stop reading this. Absolutely absorbing. May have brought me to tears on the tube…"
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“She read the entire menu aloud to Jo and me, word for word. If she especially liked the sound of a dish, she repeated it. I remember how surreal it felt, but how I’d simply passed it off as maybe something other people like to do; have menu recitals.”
― In Defence of the Act
― In Defence of the Act
“Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university.”
― In Defence of the Act
― In Defence of the Act
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