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'...a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She [mrs rouncewell] regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes; a genteel distinction to which common people have no claim. '
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Feb 10, 2016 12:21PM
I hope you're enjoying it as much as I did?
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Aye I am. It's taken awhile to get into, as there's a lot of characters involved and I was wondering what the actual main plot was if there can be said to be a main plot at all. The narrative seems to be an entangled web of individual histories in the struggle of life and much hindered by chancery and society at large.
Kirsty wrote: "Aye I am. It's taken awhile to get into, as there's a lot of characters involved and I was wondering what the actual main plot was if there can be said to be a main plot at all. The narrative seems..."It's true there are loads of characters but there aren't many new characters beyond the first third of the book. I prefer books with characters and little episodic moments over plot-driven books but the best books will have a good mix of both - I think BH fits that description well.
