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This is a superb heart-warming story, not without its sad parts, but nevertheless, an excellent book. The characters are great, especially the main character, Violet Mathers, who has had a terrible life until she finds her niche and at long last feels that she has a place in the world. This is a great story of a person who had a bad start but who learns to deal with the horrors and ups-and-downs of life and make her peace with the fact that things don't always turn out the way a person wants the
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I love Lorna Landvik's writing but it seemed like waaay too much tragedy in this book.
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