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The Private Wound by Nicholas Blake (April/May 22)
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Having enjoyed the Nigel Strangeways series by Nicholas Blake (or Cecil Day-Lewis, to give the author his correct name) I was keen to read some of his stand-alone novels.
"A Tangled Web," was published in 1956 and centres on a young woman called Daisy Bland. Daisy is a country girl, who is working in a milliners shop in London, when she literally bumps into Hugo Chesterman. Hugo is charming, funny and, before the day is out, Daisy has thrown away her past life and has fallen desperately in love ...more
"A Tangled Web," was published in 1956 and centres on a young woman called Daisy Bland. Daisy is a country girl, who is working in a milliners shop in London, when she literally bumps into Hugo Chesterman. Hugo is charming, funny and, before the day is out, Daisy has thrown away her past life and has fallen desperately in love ...more
This is a hard book for me to rate as I didn't particularly enjoy reading it, always anticipating an unhappy ending, but the writing is excellent and the story engrossing.
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