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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Jordan is frustrated with her life.  She is searching for something…but she doesn’t quite know what.  Her marriage has grown weary, and the care of her three small children has grown tedious.  She and her husband Martin move to the Grey House, a beautiful home is a small village, and Alice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66152639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read the synopsis for this book I thought &quot;Well, it sounds like she's going to become a lesbian, but if it sounds like that from the blurb, surely it'll turn out to be something different, right?&quot; But I was wrong. It was exactly what I thought it was going to be. And despite the clu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41284217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice is a young mother of three, living with a loving husband in the house of their dreams, in an charming English village.  This ideal picture becomes totally confused when the unregenerate daughter of the local squire returns from a prolonged stay in America.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope (2002)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice has everything she could possibly want in life:  a steady husband, three delightful children, loving in-laws, and now a new and gorgeous house ... and yet something is missing.  <br/><br/>This is the story of how she 'wakes up' and finds, most unexpectedly, what she needed.  Yet she finds th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13499957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful tale of village life but with a very modern twist to it.<br/>The Characters were believable which really made me want to know how their stories ended.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When you're in one of those places, between books, the limbo that follows a great book or even a dull book, when you need a solid novel and you find yourself surrounding by indecision and uncertaintly, pick up a Joanna Trollope book.  This one is a fine example.  She runs with likes of Barbara Pym a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29708067">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the interconnections between the characters.  Easy read, but not simple when it comes to the characters - makes you think.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting twist in this book keeps you guessing! When it ended I wasn't sure if I felt happy or sad for the main charater!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ignore the tacky cover!]]></body>
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