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Rebecca’s
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2025
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3.6
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4.71
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Rebecca’s first review of the year
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A couple of excerpts from Stephen Sexton’s “Skype” reveal a typical viewpoint: “That it’s strange to miss home / and be in it” and “How strange home / does not stay as it’s left.” (Such wonderfully off-kilter enjambment in the latter!) People are always changing, just as much as places – ‘You can’t go home again’; ‘You never set foot in the same river twice’ and so on. Zeina Hashem Beck captures these ideas in the first stanza of “Ten Years Later
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Rebecca’s last review of the year
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Cosy, jolly and page-turning, but this 1930s-set mystery isn't just about period nostalgia; Stevens brings things up to date through her straightforward treatment of serious themes such as alcoholism, bisexuality, bullying and xenophobia. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are an appealing Holmes-and-Watson duo, and seeing events from Hazel's POV is a perfect way of introducing British private school traditions and dramatizing her search to belong. There
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