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uhm, no... Oscar Wilde wasn't in reading Prison. he was imprisoned in Reading - it's a place, and it's not pronounced the same way as reading a book... *sighs* all in all he is not doing a bad job, but surely it would have been possible to get a british narrator?

“Jem must have noticed my bewilderment. “Don’t they have markets where you’re from?”
“Not like this.” I thought of the farmers’ market held on Parliament Hill every Saturday, with its neat stalls displaying ostrich burgers, spelt bread and overpriced organic vegetables with cosmetically applied daubs of mud.”

Our farmers' market sells wild boar and cranberry sausages, too.

I tend to avoid time travel the same way I avoid spiders or drunken chipsters, but this is JL Merrow, so all will be well.

run - you, fools!

run - you, fools!

Jem is just breaking my heart.

You just can't go wrong with a JL Merrow story.

I am loving this little Jem....I mean gem.

Historical + time travel + JL Merrow = spuds like a winning combo to me.

Loved it. Review to come.

I am transported to Victorian London... What a joy it is to read JL Merrow

Time to cuddle up with a quick read...

Ta da!!

"You ain't cracked. Or if you are I'll mend you," he promised.

Then I went upstairs, stripped off my clothes and let them lie where they fell, and crawled into my soft, clean-smelling, achingly lonely bed.

When I got into the house, Alasdair smiled down at me from his picture.
"You'd like him," I said. "He's kind, and capable, and the most accepting person you could meet."
Alasdair's smile seemed to grow a little warmer.