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"I tend to open any biography with some degree of skepticism—and more so an autobiography. After all, how can any person pretend to be entirely even handed in telling their version of their own story? Any writer, bearing in mind the need for book s..."
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"I chose to read this almost as an apology for having given up on Beaton’s "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" when it was a finalist on Canada Reads; I could see that she had weighty matters to share in that work but I abandoned it because I simpl..."
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The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling...
