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An elderly woman’s recollections of a love that ended in tragedy shed new light on a married woman’s illicit affair.
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Wordpress keeps eating this review, and I don’t have the energy to write it a third time. Suffice it to say that it’s very good, with great characters, wonderful postwar detail, and a riveting story.
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A working mother of two finds her life teetering out of balance as she struggles to succeed in finance without feeling guilty that the nanny is raising her kids.
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I sometimes have anxiety dreams where I’m working. I’m either behind the counter at the video store I clerked at in grad school, or posting things [...]

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When a betrayed wife discovers that her husband’s mistress could be her (much younger) twin, she convinces the mistress that they should switch places and see how the other half lives.
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Kristin Lavransdatter is a girl in 14th Century Norway, betrothed to one man but desperately in love with another.
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Bored with her marriage to a dull country doctor, Emma Bovary spins fantasy into adultery and rampant overspending.
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Ooh-la-la! What a great read! I must say I was surprised at how contemporary this novel felt. Written in 1857, Madame Bovary is a psychological tour-de-force. Emma’s story is about much more than adultery, [...]

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