Penelope Fitzgerald 2002
- What it is
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A book about books · funny and sad at once
- Genre
- Literary Classics
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Sad, and in no hurry · no clean hands here
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Sad, and in no hurry · comforting, like coming home
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Melancholic and unhurried · comforting, like coming home
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