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I picked this up serendipitously from the library discard table. I hadn’t heard of the author or title but it’s part of the New Canadian Library and the blurb on the back made it sound interesting. After reading it, I’m particularly delighted with this find. It’s the engaging and charming, partly biographical, account of the irrepressible and talkative Topaz Edgeworth’s life beginning in Victorian England spanning almost 100 years and across the sea to Vancouver. I don’t know why this witty and
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Aug 02, 2010
Ibis3
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A little bit like W.O. Mitchell decided to try his hand at Cranford (or vice versa perhaps). A pleasant journey from Victorian Staffordshire to Georgian Vancouver with the loquacious and unconventional Topaz Edgeworth (based on the author's own Great-Aunt)as a guide.
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Apr 02, 2017
Avonlea Rose
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