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The writing in this excellent novel is so good that it wasn't until I was well into it that I stopped to find out if its central premise -- an IRA attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher with a bomb -- was a real event. Despite having a more than passing interest (for an American) in 1980s Britain, I'd never heard of this attack. As a work of "near" historical fiction, I'm not sure those who can recall the bombing will read it differently, but as someone who came to it fresh, I found the entire book r
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Mar 12, 2016
Alyson Zikmund
marked it as to-read
Jun 30, 2017
Ann
marked it as to-read
