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Ted Howker’s school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace – in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted’s grandfather – is Paradise. Ted and his father and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of men, all of whom work in the pit...

Susan Hill is an exceptional writer at the height of her powers. Every word is precisely right: the descriptions of the village and the pit, the people and the farm are exact and true; the heartbreak is inevitable yet new; and the imagery and imagination take your breath away.]]> 135 Susan Hill 0701184213 Nicola 0 currently-reading 3.66 2013
author: Susan Hill
name: Nicola
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2013
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]]> 246225 240 Dorothy L. Sayers 0060809086 Nicola 4 4.12 1930
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
name: Nicola
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1930
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I know it's a fault in me, but I've never really got on with Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. Sometimes, they just get on my nerves. But having read and enjoyed Jill Paton Walsh's incarnations of them in later life, I thought it would be interesting to read the novel where they meet for the first time, and I'm so glad I did. This has been by far the most enjoyable Sayers for me, probably because Lord Peter isn't as dominant as usual. Instead, the book is stolen by the characters of Miss Climpson and Miss Murchison, two resourceful women in his employment, members of the so-called surplus generation - spinsters and widows who had to find their own way after the war. There have been lots of great non-fiction books about these women, but it's fascinating to read Sayers writing about them in her own time, with humour and admiration.
]]> 7840331 346 Graeme Thompson 1847729304 Nicola 5 3.96 2010
author: Graeme Thompson
name: Nicola
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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I've been a Kate Bush fan since I was seven, when Wuthering Heights came out, and I've loved her music ever since - but this book showed me how little I really knew about her. Balanced, informative and really well researched.
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