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“He’d just registered what this most mundane and extraordinary moment ment- that in the space of several weeks, they had become what he never found in Hampstead, what he thought he’d never have again after Canton; a circle of people he loved so fiercely his chest hurt when he thought about them.”

“By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other- not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them.”

“Dickens’s serials were well and fun, but what a pleasure it was to hold the weight of an entire, finished story in his hands.”

“Robin was not too young to understand that there were some truths that could never be uttered, that life as normal was only possible if they were never acknowledged.”

First book of the year ☺️