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A Corner of Paradise, by Brian Thompson - review

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

A Corner of Paradise Brian Thompson

Chatto, pp.224, £16.99, ISBN: 9780701188023

Author has late-blossoming romance with authoress, both divorcees, and they live together in a cramped house in Harrogate full of stepchildren and then buy a derelict summer house surrounded by vast maize fields in the Charente-Maritime, but are no good at DIY, and they make friends with the locals who help them build a walled garden.

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