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Old 10-17-2020, 06:48 PM   #40
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It's a stretch and then a reach but Danny Dunn and The Homework Machine was a favorite during school days if you want light entertaining.
I loved Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine.

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Frederic Raphael’ The Glittering Prizes starts out in Cambridge (plus there’s a vintage BBC series with a young Tom Conti)
A few of CP Snow’s Strangers and Brothers series are in Cambridge (The Masters being most well known I think)
Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon, Dublin
I loved the series as well as the book, but I do remember that the young Tom Conti was not quite young enough to be believable as a student in his secondary school before going to Cambridge.

I thought of The Masters, a wonderful book, and it absolutely stands alone. No need to have read the earlier books.

O/T: a personal connection with The Strangers and Brothers series is that I might not have realized what was happening when I suffered my first retinal detachment had I not read about it in S&B.
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