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Night-owl
Night-owl
Jan 2021
10:54am, 11 Jan 2021
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Night-owl
Finished The Bookshop last night
mrs shanksi
mrs shanksi
Jan 2021
11:09am, 11 Jan 2021
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mrs shanksi
Was that the book by Penelope Fitzgerald Night-owl?
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2021
11:10am, 11 Jan 2021
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Diogenes
It’s reviews like that that make a writer’s life worthwhile
Night-owl
Night-owl
Jan 2021
11:15am, 11 Jan 2021
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Night-owl
Mrs Shanksi. Yes
mrs shanksi
mrs shanksi
Jan 2021
11:18am, 11 Jan 2021
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mrs shanksi
What did you think of it? It made me sad.
Night-owl
Night-owl
Jan 2021
11:20am, 11 Jan 2021
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Night-owl
I will blog later. I did like it and I did think the ending was rather sad
LazyDaisy
LazyDaisy
Jan 2021
4:17pm, 11 Jan 2021
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LazyDaisy
Prompted by McG's trawl through 1 star reviews I had a look at the only one star review on Amazon for London Belongs To Me, which I finished over the weekend and, which, like Dio, I absolutely adored. If you're looking for a Really Good Read, this is it, but the 1* reviewer said this:
'Found this on the train coming back from the smoke. Thought it looked interesting, after reading twenty pages I realised why it had been left on the train. UTTER UNRESEARCHED GARBAGE THAT MY ELEVEN YEAR OLD NIECE COULD OF WROTE!

One hopes that the eleven year old niece has a better grasp of basic grammar ;-)
Sharkie
Sharkie
Jan 2021
4:19pm, 11 Jan 2021
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Sharkie
Lollers, LD! (if you can accept 'lollers')
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jan 2021
4:30pm, 11 Jan 2021
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McGoohan
Sadly Amazon have removed the ability to comment on reviews now, so you can't even reply, 'YOU'RE NEICE COULD NOT OF WRITTEN THIS, KNOW WEIGH'
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2021
5:02pm, 11 Jan 2021
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Diogenes
It seems strange to pick on research as a weakness based on the first twenty pages, especially as I expect Collins was far more familiar with the time and situation than most modern readers, even if their memories do stretch back to 1939.

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