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"What a joy this book is. A literary romance. Aged about 19 Kath meets a bohemian family with six children and falls in love with them, and especially the eldest son, Roger. And I fell in love with them. After the end of that first love affair, Kath m"
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This book masquerades as a cosy read. It has been described as such by many reviewers, and the 'serving suggestion' on the back cover by Rachel Cooke from the Sunday Times is to consume the story in a bed of fresh linen whilst munching on Marmite" Read more of this review ? |
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“We have always believed it good to leave a place before it leaves you.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
“Le Bal du comte d¡¯Orgel.”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
“In a road-mender¡¯s hut near V¨¦zelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: ¡°La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau.¡± (¡°Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.¡±)”
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
― Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
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