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The Scribbler
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Thanks for the book choice LindsD. I have enjoyed your choices before, and I know I've seen the film of this one.

I'd be interested in what you thought of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Columba. And in reading The Invisible Woman.

I've part way through Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Night-owl
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I have reserved it from the library just have to wait for whoever to return it
Columba
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Well, I'm glad I read it, Scribbler, and it certainly held my attention until towards the end, when they were obviously going to end up married to each other but there was something like a long hiatus before they finally got back together and discovered that yes, they had neither of them changed their minds. I must say I was fairly amazed that a vicar's daughter in her 20s could include such dissolute characters and goings-on in her novel, not to mention a pretty gruesome deathbed scene. I haven't read anything about the Brontes themselves, and don't know whether any of this could be first-hand knowledge or did she get it all from her own reading.

Reserved the Virgin Suicides, and it doesn't seem to be Out, just in a different library elsewhere in the county so should get it in a few days I expect.
DazTheSlug
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Jan 2017
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I read The Virgin Suicides last month!
thought it was superb
5 Stars
one of those books that I know I will re-read regularly
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LindsD
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I've also reserved it. If anyone's interested, my other choice was Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland. And I flirted with Rachel Joyce's The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy :)
DazTheSlug
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I've got Coupland down on my "Author First" list, but was going to start with "Microserfs"
LindsD
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Excellent Daz! Pleased to hear that.
McGoohan
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Daz - there are very few books you *won't* get round to in the course of a year ;-)
The Scribbler
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Columba, the Brontes brother Branwell effectively drank himself to death at home after a dalliance with a married woman in the house where he was a tutor and Ann was the governess. I think she saw plenty.
Columba
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Ah! - yes, that explains it entirely.

And him a vicar's son! - What did Dad think about it, or had Dad by then passed on? I should really read a biography.

Started the Nelly Ternan book, so far just the early chapters dealing with the lifestyle of actors in the 19th century, and in particular actresses. Boggled. Some of them were on stage up to a few days before giving birth, produced the baby in their lodgings, and went back on stage within a few weeks. And they might have 10 children or more over a working lifetime. And end up dying in penury as no-one wanted to employ elderly actresses.

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