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Melindam Melindam said: " I enjoy the narrator's - Rob Inglis- reading so much. A homely, familiar and classic storytelling, just as this book deserves!! ...more "

 
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Craig Brown
“The two of them, the group captain and the princess had called it a day.four years before when she was 25 years old. But when you are royal, nothing is allowed to be forgotten. That is the price to pay for being part of history.”
Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Terry Pratchett
“All thirty-one of the Lavish lawyers stood up and spoke at once, incurring a total cost to their clients of of AM$119.28.”
Terry Pratchett, Making Money
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Craig Brown
“Margaret thought the world cruel for seeing her as the negative version of her sister, yet it was also how she came to define herself. (...) On one side she was given an inflated sense of her own value, while on the other her confidence was continually undermined by comparisons with her sister. She was very spoilt and indulged and made to feel a very special person indeed, while simultaneously being given clearly to understand that it was her sister who was important.

She remained conscious of the image of the one who wasn’t and to some extent played on it: the one who wasn’t the queen, the one who wasn't taught constitutional history, because she wasn’t the one who’d be needing it; the one who wasn’t in the first coach and wouldn’t ever be the first onto Buckingham Palace balcony; the one who wasn’t given the important duties, but was obliged to make do with the also-rans.”
Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Rumer Godden
“There are several ways," he said shyly, "in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...”
Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus

Hilary Mantel
“What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?”
Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

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