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Yes, the article is interesting - thanks Bookworm-Girl.
Fitzgerald’s very English reserve didn’t trouble me at all, given that my parents were both English, and my mother was almost Fitzgerald’s contemporary. It’s probably why I feel very comfortable with writers like her, as well as with Australian writers. A foot in each camp, as it were!
All the adult characters were muted - even Violet Gamart pulled her strings quietly - and I thought that was a reflection of their way of being and the various reasons that had brought them to this place.
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