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Book cover for Trust: A Novel
Hugs, kisses, and I sent off the letter just as, when walking down a lonely path in the mountains or in the countryside, you nod in a friendly way at a stranger and await a similar, reassuring nod.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
“But there is something else which I have written and which I want to read to you while I still have time,’ Fritz told Karoline. ‘It will not truly exist until you have heard it.’ ‘Is”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower: A Novel

Domenico Starnone
“exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

Jane Gardam
“Because you were loved you’ll know how to love. And you will recognise real love for you.”
Jane Gardam, Last Friends

Domenico Starnone
“had never been capable of adjusting the reality of facts to my advantage, and maybe that’s why I was so exhausted.”
Domenico Starnone, Trust: A Novel

Elizabeth Jenkins
“The re-dipping of the dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.”
Elizabeth Jenkins, The Tortoise and the Hare

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