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Daily Archives: April 22, 2015
“The Children Act” by Ian McEwan (2014) – book review
Oops, broke my resolve and bought this latest slim tome at the airport, dropping my boy back off on his return ‘home’ (agh, dagger to heart) to university life – it’s always a very dangerous thing to buy even a … Continue reading
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