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For another debut novel which explores the theme of late-developing love and attempts to achieve the seemingly impossible you might like to read Stef Penney's [[The Tenderness of Wolves]].
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|name=Magda
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|comment= You know, I had already decided NOT to read this, but your enthusiasm persuaded me otherwise. I will, now. Although I dislike, by default, all stories of late blossoming love.
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|name=Sue
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|comment= I think you'll enjoy it Magda.
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|name=John Lloyd
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|comment= Er... I didn't enjoy it. The diary entries and other narrator-less found documents have the worst unnatural descriptive elements, everyone's email features a perfectly remembered conversation, one early chapter is ridiculously harsh on the hero... It's not dreadful, merely ho-hum reasonable. Certainly not worth the building hype.
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|comment= A lot of my emails feature 'perfectly-remembered conversation' and having been a Civil Servant for 25 years those ddocuments documents had me howling with laughter - I've read far too many just like them.
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|name=Colin Cameron
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|comment= [An] enjoyable quick read and well observed, but the joke a bit over-extended.
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