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The Chalon image was never used on British stamps; perhaps it was too explicit too close to home. But in the Empire it was a smash success. It ran and ran, and as late as the 1880s, when the real Queen Victoria was in her sixties, the citizens of the Australian and West Indian colonies were still licking the image of the eighteen-year-old virgin girl every time they put a stamp on a letter.

'I used to think that organized crime was complicated. It’s peanuts compared with this lot.’

Loved how he describes the life around Jerusalem Lane and its people and the desolation 6 months later.

Extra cookie points for first novel.

Listened to the first half on autopilot not much interested. Second half is better. Not too fond of the writing.

Nothing wrong with the writing etc but I really disliked Nan. And absolutely no sparks with hmm the guy in the book.