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Heartstones
Jul 17, 2025 3:51 AM

Author:Ruth Rendell

Heartstones

In a college town two schoolgirls live with their widowed father Luke, a gentle well-educated man, meticulous and orderly. Elvira and Spinny are watchful however for Luke plans to remarry and has chosen Mary. The threat to the girls world is removed, however, when Mary falls to her death.

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A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel

—— John Carey , Sunday Times

It is a vindication of the role poetry can fulfil as a source of inspiration and encouragement

—— Glasgow Herald

Generals tend to win their reputations at the cost of other men's lives. By an anomaly unique in military history Wavell's own reputation has reached its widest range - certainly in the English-speaking world - not because of his prowess as a soldier or a proconsul, but because of his identification with a small miscellany containing a selection of other men's verses

—— Ronald Lewin
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