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As I am deciding on the next novel by an underrated woman writer from the UK or Ireland, this one immediately grabbed me. Who could resist reading the novel that starts like this? (quote in the comment)
— Jan 24, 2023 08:52AM
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Set between the nineteenth century and the full swing of the twentieth, those brief ten years we call Edwardian seem now like a short spring day. … A queer time! Perhaps a transition time; for that matter, this is one of the things times always are.
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“One evening, shortly before Christmas, in the days when our forefathers, being young, possessed the earth,—in brief, in the year 1879,—Mrs. Garden came briskly into the drawing-room from Mr. Garden’s study and said in her crisp, even voice to her six children, “Well, my dears, I have to tell you something. Poor papa has lost his faith again.”
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S̶e̶a̶n̶ wrote: "Great title, too."Definitely! It's from Macbeth's last act soliloquy, the novel's epigraph. I'm into p. 10 and already laughed more than once - lovely in its eccentricity and really well-written. The epigraph though suggests to expect more from behind the witty veneer. Very much look forward to it!
