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Peculiar Ground
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
8 posts | 5 read | 10 to read
Unlike anything Ive read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. Its wonderful Tessa Hadley
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KarenUK
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#septemberdanes Not #solidground but ‘Peculiar Ground‘ .... Picked up this one for my #TBR mostly down to the lovely tunnel of trees on the cover... something I love and that reminds me of my home county of Sussex.... plus the blurb mentions English country houses and Atonement ... so totally my jam then! 👍💕

Jennick2004 Pretty 6y
Cinfhen I love the word “peculiar” and it‘s a great cover 💚 6y
Kalalalatja I love tree tunnels! 🌳🌳🌳 6y
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HardcoverHearts
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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I had an intense craving for a really good eggplant parm sandwich but couldn‘t find anywhere nearby that had it on their menu. Then I remembered that a spot just expanded that has a vegan chicken parm with meltable fake mozzarella cheese so off I went! Took this phenomenal book that I got from Jack from Daunt Books. I was in London in July. I specifically asked for UK books that aren‘t yet on our radar in the US. I‘m loving it so far.

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merelybookish
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Who's procrastinating? Not me! ?
1. Female
2. More
3. Far (set in England)
4. Nothing
5. Story moves from 1663, 1963, 1971, 1989
6. Closer
7. The Millions "what to read" list
8. Stand alone
9. More
10. More
11. Not
12. Less
13. Depends on the character.
14. More
15. TV
16. More
17. Alive
18. Neither
* Tracing life on an English estate over time, it explores how history and walls can protect and imprison.
Thanks @kaye

Kaye ✅God job, thanks for playing . (edited) 7y
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merelybookish
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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1. Pink's "What About Love" (sticks and stones might break my bones...I'll be ready)
2. Midway through. Captivated!
3. Bleak House or Middlemarch? Not sure actually.
4. @Ddzmini @oOArankaOo
Thanks for the tag @BookwormAHN ? @GarthRanzz

Ddzmini Thanks for the tag girly I sent your package 😝😋 7y
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merelybookish
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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This book is 446 pages and was due back to the library last week...but last night it was the only book I wanted to read. So more library fines for me. 🤷

Tamra Small price for good reading. 👌🏾 7y
merelybookish @Tamra Agreed. Plus I feel I do my part to support the library. ☺️ 7y
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HarperCollins
Peculiar Ground | Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett makes her literary fiction debut with Peculiar Ground, an epic English country house novel that spans three centuries and explores how the past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history.
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#lucyhugheshallett #peculiarground #fiction #amreading #britishfiction

Melissa_J You had me at English country house! 7y
BookwormM Sounds great 7y
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kerry
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I'm 78 pages into this and every time I think I'm finally invested in the story, the POV changes. Again. Anyone read it? Worth powering through? The blurbs (and description!) had me so intrigued...

StephanieY Do they at least change at the start of new chapters or something logical? 7y
kerry @syamko The first (long) chapter was all one narrator, and I finally started to get into his story when it switched time periods, and the new chapter is multiple perspectives. I ended up setting it down for a few days and have lost any motivation to pick it back up. :-/ 7y
kerry @syamko In other news, I ended up liking Elmet! Not perfect, but I dug it by the end. 7y
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