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Old 07-08-2023, 12:49 PM   #1498
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
The novel's set in 1940 and the author was born in 1952 and has a Ph.D. in history. No excuse.

I know better and I'm younger and Yank.


OK, so High Teas and Afternoon Teas were real things in 1940 and still was very much when the author was a teenager. Weird. Is the Author trying to troll the Reader? Or grew up in some strange rural hamlet (maybe in Norfolk )
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