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This is definitely a book to buy and keep. The writing is close to perfection and I don't think there's a superfluous word in the book. It's one that I'll be reading again and it's unlikely to date. Amazingly it's Atkinson's first novel and I'm going to look for some of her other work. I was put in mind of Maggie O'Farrell's [[After You'd Gone]] which was also a debut novel and I just hope that Atkinson's later work is not as disappointing as O'Farrell's.
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|comment= I read this years ago when it first came out - it's hard to remember it in detail but it has always stood as one of my favourite novels I thought it was absolutely brilliant. Another very similar novel and possibly one with a slight edge on 'Behind the Scenes' is [[Stand We at Last]] by Zoe Fairbairns.
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|comment='''Thanks for that, Judy - that's another one to go on the 'must look out for' list!
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|comment= Having already read 2 of her novels (Human Croquet and Case Histories), I was very keen to read another. I was not disappointed. It it probably the best novel I have ever read and enjoyed it enormously from start to finish. Although in places the novel is quite tragic, it also contains laugh out loud comic observations of everyday life. Fantastic!
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