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Old 08-31-2018, 08:06 AM   #27466
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I am just finishing up Patrick Gale’s latest novel Take Nothing With You. It is about an older single guy in London but most of the book is composed of scenes from his very peculiar childhood. This is probably my favourite book he has written.
This is a new author to me and one I see I need to look into. However, and as an aside, I always view with suspicion blurbs of the "For all readers of Ian McEwan's Atonement or L P Hartley's The Go-Between" type as in the Goodreads page. At least I can see the similarity there; sometimes the books cited have nothing at all in common to my eye.
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