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A chronicle of the love affairs of a beautiful but wayward upper-class English girl in a skating community in the English countryside.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- H. E. Bates
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Corgi, Oxford Univ Pr (Sd), Chivers Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780413776532
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