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Jenny (Reading Envy)
Jan 25, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Once, I embarked on a project to read all the Man Booker Prize winners, and didn't get very far. I started at the beginning and started making assumptions, like all Booker Prize winners are about the empire. It is books like this (winner, 1979) and Hotel du Lac (winner, 1984) that prove me wrong. And since I've read them closely together I can see some similarities - a cast of characters in a specific place that dictates (or allows for) some of the behavior.

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Really lovely novel set in one of my favorite milieus - the narrow boats of the Thames.
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