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    <body><![CDATA[What a great story! This book gave me a feel for time and place, made me angry with a system that, hopefully, no longer exists, and introduced characters who stayed with me for weeks after I finished reading.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had known how grim and brutal this book is I would not have read it.  Having picked it up I became engrossed and enjoyed the writing style so much that I would not put it down.  This book is about the plight of unwanted women under the predatory care of an evil mastermind.  It is interesting to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16969667">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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