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This story was bizarre and I failed to see the point of it at the end. Shona Ferguson is a graduate of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, made infamous in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Shona is a librarian who, for never-explained reasons, travels through time to 19th century Russia with some unknown "mission" from the school's supposedly long-dead founder. Shona flounders around, thinking she is there to make sure that two young people she meets are allowed to marry. People are
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