Amusing, fierce and touching

Jon Holliday, The Stage, 14/11/2006

Time has stood still in the decaying mansion of Satis House deep in the Thames estuary marshes, ever since the owner was jilted at the altar many years before.

How can she exact revenge for this betrayal?
By training a girl to break th ...
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Worth travelling many miles to see.

David Adams, Western Mail, 14/11/2006


I am not a Dickens fan but the one book I remember is Great Expectations, and the reason is the presence of Miss Havisham and the enigmatic Estella who, you may remember from schooldays, said she had no heart.

But this is Great Expectat ...
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Cruel, surprising, arbitrary and glorious

Jason Jones, The Big Issue Cymru, 14/11/2006


When Jane Austen was asked what was her fiction facilitator, she is said to have replied: “I write about love and money. What else is there to write about?” This axiom could easily undercut the oeuvre of that other classic story-crafter, Charles ...
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