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A fascinating story, but sometimes badly written with odd similes (“The blue of the sky was clear like a child’s heart”) and convoluted sentences that are needlessly back-to-front and without additional punctuation to clarify (“I like the things that the people like among whom I’ve lived all my life”).
It might seem like a standard morality tale, but is actually more complex.
Kitty Fane is a shallow upper middle class girl, who marries a dull man she barely knows and doesn’t love in order to get ...more
It might seem like a standard morality tale, but is actually more complex.
Kitty Fane is a shallow upper middle class girl, who marries a dull man she barely knows and doesn’t love in order to get ...more
A beautiful journey of a shallow woman's ability to leave her self-centered life behind and to grow, to forgive and to transform into the person she was meant to be.
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The book evokes moral reflection.
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