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On topic: an author who "gets it"
I read this paragraph this morning, and immediately smiled and re-read
it, and re-read it again. Perfection! "It was one of the pinafores Saffy had sewn when Merry first arrived, made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess. It had languished ever since in the sewing cupboard, waiting patiently for Saffy to find it a purpose. And now she had." From "The Distant Hours", by Kate Morton (who also wrote "The Forgotten Garden", which has been discussed in this forum). page 353. The book is a Gothic novel about an eccentric English family in a castle during WWII and the child who lived with them during the war, with a parallel story set in the 1990s that continues the family saga a half-century on with the daughter of the child they'd sheltered. (How's that for a nutshell encapsulation?) Hope I've whet your curiosity! -- Susan Hartman |
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