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This is another great Crusie novel. I don't know why I never gave it a chance before. I loved it. The things that bothered me: another plot including family members taking advantage and Rachel's subplot. Are there more Dempsey books? I must find out!
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush!
“I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans – or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilisation.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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