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aidan & harriet throwing daggers at each other 😭😭😭
AIDAN IS 100% THAT BITCH! & I BLOODY LOVIM!
lol she KNOWS
Book Corner – July 2019 (4)
Book Corner – July 2019 (4)
The Sum of Things – Olivia Manning
This is the final book of the so-called Levant Trilogy and was published posthumously in 1980 as Manning had rather inconveniently died. This probably explains the rather loose and rather unsatisfactory ending.
The book picks up the stories of Harriet and Guy Pringle and the young army officer, Simon Boulderstone, where they were left at the end of The Battle…
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Book Corner – July 2019 (2)
Book Corner – July 2019 (2)
The Battle Lost and Won – Olivia Manning
Published in 1978, a year after The Danger Tree, this is the second book in Manning’s Levant Trilogy, set in Cairo during the Second World War. The stories of Harriet Pringle, a character loosely based on Manning herself, and Simon Boulderstone, a character to whom we were introduced for the first time in the first book, are picked up from where they were…
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Book Corner – June 2019 (3)
Book Corner – June 2019 (3)
The Danger Tree – Olivia Manning
Published in 1977 this is the first of the Levant trilogy and the fourth book in which Manning follows the war fortunes of Harriet and Guy Pringle, her fictional incarnations of herself and her hubby, Reggie. The Pringles have arrived in Cairo but are not out of the soup as the Germans are making a steady advance through the North African desert. Their next…
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Book Corner – April 2019 (2)
Book Corner – April 2019 (2)
Friends and Heroes – Olivia Manning
The opening of Friends and Heroes, published in 1965, the final book of Manning’s Balkan Trilogy, finds Harriet Pringle safely in Athens, waiting for her husband, Guy, to join her from Bucharest, which has now been occupied by the Nazis. As Athens is the acknowledged escape route for the ex-pats who frequented the Romanian capital, inevitably many of the…
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Book Corner – March 2019 (2)
Book Corner – March 2019 (2)
The Great Fortune – Olivia Manning
This is the first of what became Manning’s Balkan Trilogy and was published in 1960. I have not read Manning before and so was unsure what to expect, save that greater critics than I rate the series.
In truth, I found it an undemanding read, ideal for perusing whilst lying on a sun lounger, and when I came to think about it after finishing it, it seemed to me…
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