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Title: A real disappointment
Review: Penelope Lively's The Gate of Angels [nominated for the Booker Prize in 1990] was a disappointment. The basic plot device is a bicycle collision between a fellow at Cambridge's St. Angelicus College and a young woman, Daisy, of an uncertain past. I found all of the characters and dialogue a bit too precious. Perhaps this is one of those books that only an Oxford don (who would, perhaps, appreciate the academic setting) could appreciate. It left me cold.
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