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Here’s one of my favourite quotes from B.Lloyd’s Greenwood Tree:
‘It may well be that being unused to country living my temper has in some way been affected; I almost hesitate to describe the feelings of horror I have experienced since my arrival in this place, which have grown upon me increasingly over the last few days – this feeling was hardly alleviated by our visit to the clearing, and m...
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Review of Greenwood Tree by L.J. Clayton We think of the nineteen-twenties and thirties as the ‘golden’ age of British mystery writing, and in Greenwood Tree B.Lloyd has not only set her novel in the period but brought it back to life through a vivid...more |
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“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ”
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
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