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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6h

I think it probably stands alone pretty well. Also if you had read A Spring of Love, a while ago, the realisation that some characters are the same won't be obvious right away. I was 3/4 way in before it dawned on me. I'd forgotten the names of characters in earlier book though I remembered the plot

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 9h

Now worried this is a massive spoiler. Is it supposed to be a secret from readers. 😬

Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 10h

Duh!! Only just realised this must be a sequel to A Spring of Love. Only 70% in before the penny dropped. 🙈

Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm currently reading Other People by Celia Dale. It's very good! I have loved everything I have read by her to date.

Other people by Celia Dale, book cover. Black and white photograph of people in sixties dress drinking at a table in a bar. Title text in orange against white background, author name in black.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, I'm about 40% in (Kindle edition) and enjoying it so far. Though it may work out that I preferred her others especially A Spring of Love and A Helping Hand.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, did you enjoy it?

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this, I was wondering what to read. 😁

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Dean Street Press @deanstpress.bsky.social · 2d

Not forgetting our four mystery titles from 1925! 😊✨
The Blue Diamond by Annie Haynes
Witness on the Roof by Annie Haynes
The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth
The Dower House Mystery by Patricia Wentworth
#1925Club

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Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 2d

One week to go! @kaggsy59.bsky.social

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I do love Katherine Mansfield.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d

From the archive for Katherine Mansfield, #BornOnThisDay in 1888, thoughts on THE GARDEN PARTY.

There's a beautiful fluidity of emotion in these stories as they move from happiness and gaiety to sadness and loneliness in the blink of an eye #BookSky 💙📚

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The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (1922)

What to say about this collection of fifteen of Mansfield’s short stories, other than to highlight its brilliance? I loved working my way through this short volume, reading one or two pieces on a d…

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm currently reading Other People by Celia Dale. It's very good! I have loved everything I have read by her to date.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Jacqui. I will just be so happy when it's all over.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yes, I've read The Optomist's Daughter too. Thanks for reminding me. It had such brilliant characters, can't believe I momentarily forgot I'd read that too. 😁🙈

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, very tired. I just need this move to be over. Hopefully two weeks!
I started Losing Battles by her years ago, but didn't get on with it and set it aside. A few years after that I read Delta Wedding which I absolutely loved.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I loved The Good Life! My TV childhood.

Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

I don't find it difficult, but it's non linear and not a quick/light read. It's beautifully atmospheric, so probably worth spending time with I think.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

I think I have only read one book by her previously, Faces in the Water. It was good, but I seem to have forgotten a lot of it now.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely loving this book, but utter exhaustion brought on by moving stress has meant this week has become a bit of a slow reading week. I do love getting back to a book when I know the writing is so good. 💙📚

Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 10d

Started reading: The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty. It's strongly atmospheric, with some gorgeous prose. 💙📚

Book cover. A penguin modern classic. The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty. A dark-haired woman stands casually in the doorway of a white wooden house wearing a pink apron looking off to the side.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh, going to see this play on Saturday. A rare trip out with my sister and a friend. I admit to finding manoeuvring my chair into the theatre row a palaver, just not much space to turn etc. Thankfully, I shall have two back street drivers with me to prevent disasters. 👩‍🦽

Midlands Rainbow @midlandsrainbow.bsky.social · 8d

Review: The Party Girls at The Rep, Birmingham

#ThePartyGirls #MitfordSisters #Mitfords #PressReview #TheatreReview #RepBirmingham #Play #Theatre #QueerMedia

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Review: The Party Girls at The Rep, Birmingham

Amy Rosenthal’s The Party Girls is a timely new play that explores the true story of the Mitford sisters; an infamous high society family divided by political extremism.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

The #celebritytraitors first episode absolutely over delivered.
Delighted that Celia Imrie is as sharp, fierce and twinkly eyed as I hoped and Nick Mohammed the utterly delightful human I knew he would be (big fan!) Alan Carr as a traitor will never not be hysterical. Even if he messes it up.

Publicity photograph of the cast of Celebrity Traitors UK.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 6d

I'll bet you were you little minx #CelebrityTraitors

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 6d

Me answering the door after 6pm in winter. #celebritytraitors

Alan Carr in a celebrity traitors cloak holding up a lantern, looking tense.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, true. I know the Guiness family were British and very posh, at a later date of course Diana Mitford married into the Guiness family, and I had thought they were then very English/establishment at that point. Accents do change over time too, good point.

Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh, I've been wondering about watching this. (Nothing to do with James Norton 🤭😉) Where do you stand on the accents? Have seen mixed reports.

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Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social · 7d

Oopsie - #awkward. 😬

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