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The Spinning Heart
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Start date
February 17, 2014
Finish date
February 22, 2014

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Anna
May 02, 2020 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
A beautiful written book, Donal Ryan really can express feelings though words, often quite laconically. You feel the painful loneliness of a character from just a short sentence. The love felt by another in a brief paragraph.

But I couldn't help feeling that maybe there were too many characters. Despite everyone being just as well develop within a few pages, I can't help feeling fewer characters in more pages would have been five star.

Oh, and also what happened with Bobby? Did Jim sort it out? I
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