Sally Rooney 2018
- What it is
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A love that builds slowly · melancholic and unhurried
- Genre
- Literary
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Tender and sad at once · it leaves you thinking
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Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
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Tender and sad at once · funny and sad at once
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Only spare prose
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