Eve's Alexandria: Give Me Some
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We were in sunny St. Ives in Cornwall last week, staying in the cottage of 'naive' artist Alfred Wallis (literally a stone's throw from Porthmeor Beach, pictured to the left). It was perfectly relaxing - lots of sun and paddling in the sea and reading and eating delicious seafood and long vigorous coastal walks. I could have stayed for another decade at least. But alas, back to the real world. It was very conducive to Orange Prize reading while it lasted. I polished off the whole 300+ pages of A Visit from the Good Squad on the train journey from Yorkshire (simply brilliant - why wasn't it on the shortlist?); and then proceeded to gobble up Emma Donoghue's Room ....
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