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Dorothy has taken early retirement and walked away from a bad marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. She moves to a small English village where she soon learns that England itself is changing beyond measure as the world outside its borders encroaches and intrudes.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Caryl Phillips
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Vintage International, Knopf, Secker & Warburg
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400041091
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