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Harriet Scott Chessman

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  • “How happy I felt, those first few weeks of Edgar’s visit, before I gave birth to Jeanne in December.”

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  • “Filled with precise, loving observations of human nature, The Beauty of Ordinary Things is a slender, wise triumph of a novel, exquisitely distilled.”

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  • “Russell folds her into him, on a bed in his little flat in London, on his night pass, the windows blacked out, German bombers flying overhead…”

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  • “I hold a pretty, empty cup and gaze at the ribbon of blue sky.”

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  • “A picture came to her, absurd and magnificent, of an angel swinging down from those high trees, holding a bunch of marigolds.”

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  • “Chessman’s memory play mixes poetry, slang and hurt with fierce brilliance.”

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