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Title: If only there were a sequel
Review: This book really has no equal. I first read it when I was fourteen, and find that I appreciate better now at 32 than I did then. I am delighted to see it revived. The boost it's gotten from J.K. Rowling, however, has proved a bit of a mixed blessing. Many people seem to infer from her endorsement that it's of a genre with her writing. In fact, this is not fantasy, but a beautiful evocation of the life of an observant teenager in 1930's England. Highly recommended for artists, writers, and Anglophiles. And may I suggest: "The Death of the Heart," by Elizabeth Bowen, for an alternate existence to Cassandra's.
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