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2 October 2021

9:00 AM

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

Making Nice Ferdinand Mount

Bloomsbury Continuum, pp.256, 16.99

Have you heard of champing? Neither had I. Turns out it’s camping in a field beside a deserted church. When it rains, you abandon your flimsy tent and instead bed down in the hushed aisles. At the beginning of Ferdinand Mount’s new novel, Making Nice, Dickie Pentecost and his wife Jane, together with their daughters Flo and Lucy, are doing just that.

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