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Although I took a long while to read this book and I thought it started out slowly, once I got into it I could not stop reading it, and finished over 600 pages in three days all the while reading three other books at the same time! It reads to me like a Dickens novel, set in the same time period (and with Mr. Dickens himself making an appearance!), although I think the action happens in a much faster manner than in some of the Dickens novels. The sense of time and place is really strong, and the
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