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by Jo Casebourne

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  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman

    The French Lieutenant’s Woman

    I finally read the last of my 2023 Christmas books at the end of August, The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, on a trip to Lyme Regis where it is set. It was recommended to me as a great example of an intrusive omnipresent narrator, a style that has definitely fallen out of fashion

  • The Armour of Light

    The Armour of Light

    I got The Armour of Light by Ken Follett, one of my absolute favourite authors (see my blogs on The Pillars of the Earth, Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, The Edge of Eternity, The Evening and the Morning and A Dangerous Fortune) as a Christmas present last year and finally got time to read it in August. It was

  • Mona of the Manor

    Mona of the Manor

    I got Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin for my birthday in July and read it on a walking holiday in the Isle of Wight. This is the latest in the Tales of the City series (see my blog on The Days of Anna Madrigal), which so gripped me when I was at University

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