Books by Lindsay Ashford
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review 1: I just couldn't do it! I wanted to read this book that, when I picked it up at the Festival of Books this year, seemed so interesting and Austenesque. Unfortunately, once I got started I couldn't wait to stop, and I finally decided to give up. Didn't appreciate the very scandalou...
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review 1: An enjoyable, although somewhat convoluted, speculative story about the early demise of Jane Austen, based on true facts. I found the many Austen men and women and their wives and husbands, dead wives and husbands, and children (legitimate and otherwise) to be confusing, so the s...
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review 1: aeroplane read. spoiler at the start - apparently a sample of JA's hair has been tested for arsenic and found positive. thus is an explanation for that. using an outsider - governess, who is nevertheless welcomed as a friend and knows the very large family, does work as a driver ...