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pickThe first in his final "Gorse" trilogy, written in the fifties but set pre and immediately post the First World War and starring, if that's the word, Ernest Ralph Gorse, one of the most repulsive characters in all fiction and his seduction and robbery of a naive young girl. There is something so horrifically entertaining about Gorse's villainy, and it's written with such brio and charm that I found it irresistible.
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