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Oct 29, 2023Liked by Laura Spence-Ash

Love the idea of single sentences carrying the weight of a theme throughout a novel. Makes me wonder if I've missed this in other works.

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Oct 29, 2023Liked by Laura Spence-Ash

Omg, love this! Really love this, particularly your character-specific relationships to the curtsey.

Unrelated to your craft essay but worth some joy is that, I learned last week, Toibin has written a sequel to Brooklyn. It’s coming out in 2024.

Laura, I don’t recall your mentioning Alice McDermott as one of your go-to authors, but I think of her as one of the great American writers who explores the interiority of so-called ordinary women.

Thank you for this post! Robyn

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