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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 14
Extract from The Ministry of Complaints Hans Walter Neumann couldn't remember his journey home. All he knew was that now he was staring at his own...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 13
1956 part 2 "Two buggers together. What do you say? It'll be jolly good fun." The next time they met up, at another viewing of Casablanca , neither...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 12
Chapter 8. I insisted Eldur drop me on the edge of town. He had already gone to enough trouble on my behalf and the last thing I wanted was for him...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 11
1956 "She is, how shall we say, different." Mary and Edmund sat side by side in front of Miss Quillen, their daughter’s teacher. "Quite brilliant in...
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The Long and Spectacular Life of Agnes Magnusdottir 10
Chapter 7. Lights were springing up across the town. The breeze, what there was of it, was gentle. I lit a cigarette and held the filter to the gap...
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I've read the whole thing now
Posted on Thu, 02 Sep 2021
I've read the whole thing now. 70,000 words.
I couldn't remember if these characters from this prologue appeared in the rest of the book. And I'm pleased to say they do. Quite a lot.
I am also pleased to find out...
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Congratulations! This is our
Posted on Tue, 23 Mar 2021
Congratulations! This is our Facebook And Twitter Pick of the Day. Please retweet and share with a cup of tea.
Don't worry, the picture's not Stollen it's from...
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Excellent. Takes me back to
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
Excellent. Takes me back to the time when I wrote endless letters to my friends
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That's a typical Sunday for
Posted on Sun, 16 Aug 2020
That's a typical Sunday for me. If you're struggling again, give me a shout. Loved the story, clearly.
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I'm really enjoying it but
Posted on Fri, 31 Jul 2020
I'm really enjoying it but finding it confusing too... I don't think it's supposed to be clear, it's that sense of not knowing how it all fits together that carries it forward.
Read full commentPosted in Pins (21)
Brilliant. Can you set it to
Posted on Sat, 25 Jul 2020
Brilliant. Can you set it to music and sing it at the next ABC event.
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Good, isn't it? I've not got
Posted on Fri, 15 May 2020
Good, isn't it? I've not got to end yet but I will.
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I will. The problem is I'm
Posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2020
I will. The problem is I'm reading WG Sebald. Who writes in very long dense, brilliant, sentences. And all these stories initially were started after reading Camilla Grudova. I dream of being these people and in the end it comes out sounding like...
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Simon, you are always so hard
Posted on Mon, 20 Sep 2021
Simon, you are always so hard on yourself. I love your writing, so unique. You also, nearly always, hint at meanings just out of reach. Murakami does this, but in a completely different way to you.
And so, I definitely recommend...
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Really good story.
Posted on Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Really good story.
Read full commentPosted in With or Without You
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