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Emma Rose said:
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The last time I read Emma by myself (no audiobook) was eleven years ago. What a clever novel, and unexplicably - how extremely cosy. Emma is independently wealthy and could live extravagantly if she chose and yet the goings-on in her village of Highb
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Emma Rose said:
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How riveting. This is a dense book and it took me a while to finish it but I'm so happy I did, for it provides some really wonderfully detailed chapters on things I had read very little about up till now - hobbies in Victorian England. There's no boo
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“You are a scoundrel," she whispered furiously.
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
"Yes," he agreed. "I'm thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels."
"You're millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.”
― The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”
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― The Spellshop
“I can’t lose books; I’d lose me.”
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― The Spellshop
“I want to know you better."
"No, you don't. I'm not friendly. I like to be alone."
"You can be alone with me.”
― The Spellshop
"No, you don't. I'm not friendly. I like to be alone."
"You can be alone with me.”
― The Spellshop
“She didn’t really know anything about running a shop or magic or jam… But I do know books - and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was magic in and of itself.”
― The Spellshop
― The Spellshop
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