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The best-written recent literary fiction; and Jonathan Meades on prose style: 'Writing which dares not appropriate is pathetic'
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'A pure dust storm of utter genius' — Daisy Johnson
‘As profound as it is wonderfully strange’ — Lauren Groff

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