Berkley
When the final line is read and you find that it is difficult to extricate yourself from the world that swallowed you whole, you have found yourself a good novel. As George Saunders once said, good writing “enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.”
Writing duo Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray have accomplished just that with their latest historical novel, A Pair of
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