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About Lucy Hughes-Hallett
See more books from this AuthorThe novel is a pleasure to read for the loveliness of its language. It’s also a timely meditation on walls, on what they keep in and what they keep out.
Read Full Review of Peculiar Ground | See more reviews from KirkusAn award-winning biographer, Hughes-Hallett layers multiple stories, research, themes and characters. She is obviously enamored of her subject, Wychwood and its people, walls and all.
Read Full Review of Peculiar Ground | See more reviews from Star TribunePeculiar Ground may be big but it is also marvellously subtle: like its images, its preoccupations – with class, and loyalty, and morality, and long marriage and the nature of love...
Read Full Review of Peculiar Ground | See more reviews from GuardianAt times it feels that she tries to cover too much ground, but the novel is rich with detail, made vivid by meticulous research. The result leaves you hoping that this late conversion to fiction will prove only the beginning.
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