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This took me a little while to get into, but ultimately I loved it. The book is so dramatic and beautifully written, especially from the second half onwards, and the ending is so, so powerful. I love Elizabeth Gaskell's writing, and even if the dialect was a bar for me at first, I strongly recommend sticking with it. A brilliant novel.
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This is my fourth Elizabeth Gaskell and one again I'm struck by Gaskell's ability to write such compelling and lyrical novels. This was definitely the most heartbreaking of her novels that I've read yet but her writing is so amazing that it didn't deter my enjoyment of it. Sylvia is a character I will definitely be thinking about in the following months.
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