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“I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.” quote by Monica Ali — Download Open image

“I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.”

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“Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.”

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“The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.”

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