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Brilliant. Funny. Poignant even at times. Robertson takes us back to Salterton some four years after Tempest-Tost, where someone has placed a false engagement notice about Pearl Vambrace and Solomon Bridgetower in the paper. Professor Vambrace is outraged, thinking that the mysterious 'X' did it as an insult to him. When he doesn't get the apology he wants from Gloster Ridley, the Bellman's editor, he decides to sue for libel. Everyone in town seems to be affected by the hubbub created and we ge
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My UNBSJ Book Club has a Book Bingo Game where one of the swquares was to read a book published in the year of my birth which was 1954. I therefore selected LEAVEN OF MALICE by Roberston Davies published in that year, and which was the second book in the Salterton Trilogy, An enjoyable reread of one of Davies many memorable novels.
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