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Title: A Little Wrong in the Mind
Review: If you are looking for a well written quirky book this is it. Daisy O'Toole, young ex-prostitute is the narrator and boy howdy does she speak the vernacular. A lot is packed in this book: mystery, bawd, a bit of Victorian gothic. However the narrator is the only personnage we get to truly know. That's the main weakness of the book. A short toss off of why in the devil Arabella married the dour and much older James. And who or what made either of them the bent folks they turned out to be? What about the most odd assemblage of creature people in Snatter? (Gob what a great name for the place.)There are parts of the story that the author repeats- not just once. That objectionable device always looks like book stretching. We got it, already! Still, Daisy's voice is magnificent in its Dublin and Glasgow slang and its image. She, it turns out, is the true observer. A very good first book by Ms. Harris. I'll be waiting for more.
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