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My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

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The novel reflects many of the themes of the period such as the fear of change felt by some and the desperate longing for change endured by others.

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“It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapter Sixteen.”
― Martin Edwards Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

tags: amateur-sleuth

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“she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

tags: taxes

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“When life gives you lemons, ask for chocolate instead!”
― Nashita

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“The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones’ wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.”
― Agatha Christie, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

tags: bereaved, death-of-a-loved-one

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“He was a lean, contained-looking man, with a clipped grey beard and a mouth that cut across his face on a severe slant, like that of someone who spent his days listening to bullshit.”
― Helen Garner, This House of Grief

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