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Sayers really is at her best when she's focused on one main location and just concentrates on building the characters. Where she tends to fall down is when she goes off on those academic exercises and forgets to round out her characters. Another flaw is that she's not brilliant at writing the lower classes, it's through lack of experience rather than prejudice in her defence.
You can tell just how confident she is writing this one, the location and the characters feel very real to her and to us, ...more
You can tell just how confident she is writing this one, the location and the characters feel very real to her and to us, ...more
Harriot Vane tries to solve the problems of vandalism at her old women's college in Oxford, without, and with her rejected suitor Lord Peter Wimsey.
How I used to hate this book, my mum's favourite! Now I can see this is a good novel as well as a good whodunit. Fabulous study of male and female character and the issues and problems of independence and interdependence. ...more
How I used to hate this book, my mum's favourite! Now I can see this is a good novel as well as a good whodunit. Fabulous study of male and female character and the issues and problems of independence and interdependence. ...more
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