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My furrowed-middlebrow-etc shelf

I have read 10 novels from Dean Street Press and I know I will carry on collecting them. (The 'etc' covers other similar novels.)

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I believe that anyone raised in a religious church-going family and church-goers of all stripes (regular, doubting and lapsed) would get considerable pleasure and amusement reading the ponderings of a vicar's wife and the spoken attitudes
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