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Full of kindliness and sympathy, St Cyres persuaded June to give up her flat in town and to come with her small boy to live at Manor Thatch. June had acquiesced at first. She was lonely and frightened and in debt. June St Cyres was one of those young women who can never live within their incomes, but she was shrewd enough to know that she could liv
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Annie, only stabbed.
Matthew Sullivan • Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free
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‘You’re on another planet!’ Mrs Baker would cry as she turned off the gas or saved the bath from overflowing. ‘God only knows what you did before I came.’ ‘Well,’ Astrid would say, ‘I had Charlie, and before Charlie I lived in squalor.’
Lucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
Henrietta died the day they sent Elsie away, that losing her was worse than anything else that happened to her. Now, nearly a year later, Henrietta still had Day or a cousin take her from Turner Station to Crownsville once a week to sit with Elsie, who’d cry and cling to her as they played with each other’s hair.
Rebecca Skloot • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Body in the Canal: detectives tackle a murky case of murder (DI Jordan Carr Book 5)
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It was a risk to mention the Royal Shakespeare Company, and RADA, but the Discreet Mourners woman failed to link Astrid Miller, Audrey Hepburn’s Friend One, with the Astrid Fellowes who had been at the centre of a scandal in the 1970s and had gone mad on stage at the National, midway through a matinee of Macbeth.
Lucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
