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Title: Good vs. evil 50's style
Review: Mantel uses her sardonic wit and clever storytelling to create a parable on modern life. Set in the 1950's, the story and characters are driven by the (as yet incomplete) modernization of the Roman Catholic church. But like the author's other work (e.g. Wolf Hall), the story is only a vehicle for explorations of more universal issues: the definition of good and evil, power and subjugation, and the conflicting human desire for both stability and change.
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