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I can imagine this was a #BannedBook. The novel supports the pacifist cause in WWI and its main characters, Antoinette and Dennis, are gay. Their attempt to love eachother (because they believe it‘s impossible to have the kind of love they really want) is of course doomed. And then there is the war and the sufferings of both the ones in the trenches and the conscientious objectors. A wonderful book with great dialogues. #Booked2020 (Pic: Florence)

Wonderful book.
I think the scene at the Blacksmiths is the image that will hold this book in my memory
“ in the midst of the clammy surrounding darkness , this great square of blazing heat and light ; crimson glow illuminating the men‘s dark faces ... what a sight

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..... Dennis looked at the boy limping along at his side; saw his face , white and dim, in the darkness, the clean line of the jaw and throat. It might have been the face of a young knight, Dennis thought; a young knight ardent and fearless, setting out to combat evils as old as the world .....

I‘m loving this book

Oh Meg, look at this! The gift paper and the bookmark and of course the #Persephone book inside 😍😍. The comparison to Boyne is very promising and your kind words... I‘m over the moon 🌙 🌝 , really! Thank you so much! 😘

My current buddy read with the darling @shawnmooney ... and it‘s fan-freaking-tastic!!

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Just barrelled through the last 50 pages of this wonderful book. Wow. I can't quite put into words how much I loved it but I'm putting it top of my 2018 reads. Heartbreaking, brutally honest and where war is concerned, entirely relevant today. 5🌟

This book is endlessly relevant and quotable. 💔

So just when I thought I could have a more relaxed week, the company who built our house (it's a new build) turn up to start tearing bricks out the wall to find out where our leaks are coming from! 😣
Only just found some time today to sit and get some reading in, with napping baby and 3 year old distracted with Mickey Mouse.
I can definitely feel myself cracking and wearing out so I hope I catch a decent break soon...😥

Written 100 years ago. Painfully relevant now. 😔

I am loving the friendships and relationships forming in this. So beautiful and complex. I don't want it to end so I'm taking it slow. 100 pages in. Dennis is such a complex and deeply explored character, I feel as if I know him. ❤

I just want to read and read and read...❤
The writing is perfect for me. I'm flowing through it and could happily curl up all day with this book. Alas I have 2 children to attend to.
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A beautiful part 1 Of 2 #persephonebooks Mail 💛 Certain to cheer me up slightly today when I‘m feeling so blue. It‘s so beautifully wrapped too! 😍 I don‘t want to open it. I also got some history bookmail which is sure to cheer me too. #bookmail #persephone #classics #litsylovesclassics #booklover #bookblogger #bibliophile #beautifulbooks

It's like a gift to myself 😍 Persephone Books is the best! #persephonebooks

Received the latest Persephone books biannually and the latest release sounds amazing! Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini. I have some collecting to do... #persephonebooks