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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Photographer of the Lost by Daniel PeltzCaroline Scott]]===
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When we first visit May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who post. There is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which no letter or note with it. There is what nothing written on the ruins back of the Chiesa - photograph. It is a chapel - have now becomepicture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceTechnically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and oldwidow can believe. Molly uses She hangs on the history to entertain the tourists, but thereword 'missing's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of disbelieving the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumword killed. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Photographer of the Lost by Daniel PeltzCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn''Lady Mary'' chronicles t. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynSoviets, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonbut some will soon have to be on the other front, Anneagainst the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn's execution for adulteryt working, and Henrydue to Hitler's subsequent marriage tactical ineptitude and inability to Jane Seymourheed advice, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirsome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. This time The only way to shore things up, and repair the story splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henryman to do it. He's young daughteraristocratic enough, Mary. Maryhe knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by succeeded he might be able to keep a father under the influence of German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years "predatory American capitalists" and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle of these tumultuous events. ? [[Lady Mary The Man Who Killed Hitler by Lucy WorsleyAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Just Another Girl on the Road by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisS Kensington]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you fleeing from a life alone, farmhouse and fired by a rogueish sense for adventuregroup of German deserters who had raped her. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged Valentine intervened and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or finished the mad, bad group off. It was 1944 and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers Farr and ancient Egyptian artifcats along Valentine were part of the wayJedburgh unit, EDMOND, itlead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision.merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye.When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted. [[My Lady's Choosing Just Another Girl on the Road by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisS Kensington|Full Review]] <!-- Mayfield Ellory -->
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===[[The Parentations Rabbit Girls by Kate MayfieldAnna Ellory]]===
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In eighteenth century LondonBerlin, sisters Fitzgerald1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - Wall newly broken down and charged with protecting a mysterious childpeople able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. Fast forward to She is in the London middle of 2015such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy is alive or deadfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. Far away One bombshell outside, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifethen, but also forces them to keep a secret for and two hundred yearsinside. As those years pass by And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, those who were granted immortality as he has a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that itshook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. right, more bombshells… [[The Parentations Rabbit Girls by Kate MayfieldAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Long Flight Home by David LawsA L Hlad]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, you know – destroying the homes and lives of a full one-line in a ''Beyond people on the Fringe'' sketchedge. In Epping Forest, where he says he has Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a piece comfort for Susan following the loss of paper from Hitlerher parents. I then proceeded These pigeons are more than just birds to prove it was a paper bagSusan though – in each one, and especially in factDuchess, by blowing it up she sees a distinct personality and immediately bursting itforms a close bond. That is what that paper was Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to many – Britain and join the indicator of a lot of hot air, and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayRoyal Air Force. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement Working with the NazisNational Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and this book opens is tasked with the firstair-person reportage dropping hundreds of one such manhoming pigeons into German-occupied France, keen on showing proof to Chamberlain that he should where many will not sign the Sudetenland awaysurvive. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud of ignominy, to pick As the lastmission is planned, barest threads of the story up bond between Ollie and see just what did happen to him. OhSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and her help has just come out ensures that hope of prison… a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! Long Flight Home by David LawsA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Brightfall by Snorri KristjanssonJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson Robin Hood is the uncrowned king of the valley; retired Viking farmer gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and rumoured owner of retreating to a large hoard of goldmonastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. He Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is gathering his clantasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a grand reunion after ten years maze of absence. It is time for strengthening family bondsbetrayals, feastingcomplicated relationships, telling tall tales and remembering shared history. a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Kin Brightfall by Snorri KristjanssonJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth ChadwickEleanor Anstruther]]===
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''Templar Silks'' is Enid Campbell was a great example woman who, on the face of historical fiction done wellit, had everything. It's a fictitious account Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of William Marshalinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's time in Jerusalem during the late 1100s during a brief spell of calm before the death of King Baldwin life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to leprosy in 1185her. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life for lack After losing custody of research. In this book she goes back her children, Enid sells her son to fill in the gaps having spent time studying her sister for £500 – but is this particular period an act of his life. Her main problemgreed, as she acknowledges at the end or an act of desperation? Exploring the book, is that virtually nothing is known true story of Marshal's time in Jerusalem. We know when and why he wenther own grandmother, we know who Eleanor Anstruther has found the major power players wereperfect subject for an explosive, we know when he came back moving and that is about it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly beautifully well-written none the lessdebut. [[Templar Silks A Perfect Explanation by Elizabeth ChadwickEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Equator by Mitchell & MitchellAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian'Revenge'' opens with , who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the news that Charles Stuart is to return to way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the throne as Charles II bat of Englandan eyelid. A young womanBut this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, Ruth Courtneyand the attendant problems with gold rushes, is returning home pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to her familyfind this book's farmhouseversion of Utopia, excited at namely the prospect of a new King. She arrives homeEquator, howeverwhere everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to find her home ablaze counter the anti-gravity, and surrounded by renegade soldierswhere, supporters of Cromwellwho knows, her family nowhere to things might actually be foundbetter. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Revenge Equator by Mitchell & MitchellAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Baghdad Clock Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir]]===
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''The Baghdad Clock'' is Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a tale raw deal by history, of all the wives of two friends growing up during Henry VIII she is the first one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and second Iraqi war. Shahad Al Rawi uses magic realism to illustrate Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the displacement felt by dutiful one who delivered a young girl son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her neighbourhoodlife but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. The novel introduces Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to the various characters surrounding the protagonist. They are full of live an independent life and yet never seem to add anything to the central narrative. Rawi, took it would seem, has a problem with telling a story. [[The Baghdad Clock Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Shahad Al RawiAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path Liberation Square by Katherine ClementsGareth Rubin]]===
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Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the old coffin path that winds East, and Americans from the village to west. Dividing the moor topnation between them, the villagers only speak of it London soon finds itself split in hushed tones - of how two, a wall running through it's like a foreboding place filled with evilscar. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and sheWhen Jane Cawson's always loved husband is arrested for the grand house and its isolationmurder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, but Jane follows a recurrence trail of strange events begins to unsettle corruption that leads her. From objects disappearing through right to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Coffin Path Liberation Square by Katherine ClementsGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn]]===
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David Reece was called up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burma. On his return in 1946, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him and, after a brawl, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. There, he is treated by Daniel Carter, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like David, but who is working in a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try to come to terms with traumatic experiences and find a place in a world moving on from WWII[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Walking Wounded by Sheila Llewellyn:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Morris Clark -->
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===[[In The Tattooist Full Light of Auschwitz the Sun by Heather MorrisClare Clark]]===
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SoIn 1930's Berlin, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthree people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, and see the horror therea wayward young student, and immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itJulius, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandan anxious middle-aged art expert, to the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and get Rachmann, a job that means you're actually a Jew working mysterious art dealer, live in the political wing of the SSpolitically turbulent Weimar Berlin, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the place, surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and trade unfolding through the loot purloined from subsequent rise of Hitler and the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for youNazis, under the eyes discovery of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived art allows these characters to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daringexplore authenticity, vanity and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the campself-delusion. [[In The Tattooist Full Light of Auschwitz the Sun by Heather MorrisClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Phoenix of Florence by Rachel HalliburtonPhilip Kazan]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens Deep in London the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in January 1797. Benjamin Westthe forest, President she meets a band of the Royal Academysoldiers who, is reflecting on believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the past year's scandal involving determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the Provisesway, father and daughtershe meets ex-soldier Celavini, and worries that whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he handled everything poorly. From the start the book's figurative language is appropriately full of colour digs further and painterly techniques: 'He had intended uncovers links to deal his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with them honourablyOnoria, but now everyone in London was saying he had not. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint into yellow orpiment on a palette – the more he prodded and stirred hope that they can lay the memory, the murkier ghosts of their shared history to rest before it became's too late...' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Phoenix of Florence by Rachel HalliburtonPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[W Deviation by John BanksLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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On For those of you who have read books of life in the slopes Nazi camps – and of Mt Hood in Oregoncourse, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationfor those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryIt begins, after all, unmoored with someone escaping Dachau and with his world in turmoil. Beginning fleeing her work assignment during a journey westwardbombing raid, heand you's filled with d not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a desire camp for non-native civilians to wreak vengeance on look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the individuals he finds morally corruptcamp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[W Deviation by John BanksLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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{{newreview|author=Elaine Everest|title= Christmas at Woolworths|rating= 3.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=''Christmas at Woolworths'' is the sequel to wartime saga ''The Woolworths Girls,Count of 9'' and continues the story where the first book left off. Members of the close-knit community in Erith are doing their best to pull together and keep morale high, even though the future is uncertain. At the heart of the neighbourhood, the home of kindly matriarch Ruby is a beacon where family and friends can gather for good food and conversation: a way to forget the troubles outside. Spirits remain high; even when the bombs are falling so close to home. We catch up with the three friends from the first book: Sarah yearns for peace and an end to the war, Maisie is desperate for a child and Freda would love to find romance. Will they all get their wishes this Christmas?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509843655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Minette Walters|title=The Last Hours|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe hardboiled detective story written in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country1950s. On It revolves around the estate detective duo of Develish, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off to try Donald Lam and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised the virulence of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that Bertha Cool as they would bring the disease to her people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760632139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)|title=The Sixteen Trees of the Somme|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined attempt to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toby Clements|title=Kingmaker: Kingdom Come: (Book 4)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1470 dawns and the next chapters theft of the War of the Roses are ready to play outpriceless Bornean artefacts. King Edward thinks that the future has been settled but treachery is still lurking. Meanwhile Katherine and Thomas also have their world turned upside down when that ledger and a chance comment threaten all they haveHowever, including their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089466X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=P F Chisholm|title=Guns in the North (The Sir Robert Carey Mysteries Omnibus)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1592: Sir Robert Carey flees the strictures of Elizabethan court – and his creditors – in order to become Deputy Warden of the West March in Carlisle. The Scottish/English borders and those who inhabit them are different from the world he's left behind but it will have to become his world. It's now his job to bring law to the lawless. This isn't easy when every local he comes across has case quickly turns into something darker - an affinity and a heritage of crime to some degreeimpossible murder. For Robert the best thing about the job is its proximity to the woman he loves but he doesn't know what he'll do about that yet either. Meanwhile he soon realises that those who are supposed to be on his side are plotting against him but they don't realise what they're up against. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zanna Sloniowska and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=[[The House with the Stained-Glass Window|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Marianna, an opera singer in the soon-to-be Ukrainian city of Lviv, is mistakenly shot dead at a political rally in the dying days Count of the Soviet Union. This novel begins with both anger and hope, as Marianna's coffin is covered in the illegal blue and yellow flag, and her death seems to herald the birth of a new nation. But the day of her funeral is also the day of her daughter's first period – a girl who must learn how to be a woman in this time of drastic change, with no mother to guide her along the way.9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857057138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwall, 1817.Full Review]]
What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex<!--wife Josephine presides over FrenchDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long...>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340</amazonuk>}}
