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After Mrs Hamilton
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February 4, 2013
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March 3, 2013
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Crystal McKinney
Jul 04, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: really-good
Wow!

I'm not sure I will be able to put the thoughts running through my head, into words, for this review. I will give it a try, though.
There is a lot going on in this book. I don't read many books that involve more than two main characters. Halfway through the book, I was starting to wonder what was going on, but it wasn't long after that, that I was 100 percent entranced. The world could have ended around me and I would not have noticed.

Clare Ashton does a phenomenal job of making her characte
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Professor Ratigon
Dec 17, 2020 rated it did not like it
*roll my eyes*

Every time I want to torture my mind, crush my soul with desperstion, like a never-ending loop, all roads lead me back to this book. (instead of finding myself in the closest, I wonder if Clare Ashton had made me a masochist with her extreme imagination in writing?!)

Sounds about damn right.

However, I'm still soured over Laura & Susan. I will pretend they are happily living somewhere else without the revealed ugly truth. Like the old wisdom, if you don't think about it, it doesn't e
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Angela Koenig
Nov 06, 2013 rated it really liked it
Very interesting story, unusual and very sensual.
Patrizia
Feb 28, 2013 rated it really liked it
quite a family drama for being British author ... but I really liked it, being Italian :-)
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