![]() ![]() However, in the idea of trying new things, and with a month of reading books by female writers in full swing, I decided to give it a go □ I was a little hesitant to read it at first, despite its being a translated work, as I suspected that it might be chick-lit in disguise (the cover certainly didn’t convince me that it would be one I’d enjoy…). The book in question was María Dueñas’ The Seamstress (also known as The Time In Between), a best-selling Spanish novel of a woman caught up in political intrigue during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Could it be… Yes, on this day, I had received one of those mythical items, an unrequested advance review copy, a sign that I too had ascended to the next circle of bloggerdom, become one of the chosen… However, this particular incident was a little out of the ordinary as it was a book I’d never heard of and had not asked for (even my wife looked a little confused). ![]() ![]() ![]() I came home from work a couple of months ago to find a book waiting for me, a fairly common occurrence around my neck of the woods. ![]()
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