“I know that I am young, but I am ready for the great responsibility that lies before me.”   In 1837 the young Alexandrina Victoria finds herself Queen of England. In this fictional version of actual events we follow her in her first two years of reign. Victoria has been brought up sheltered from the world and only
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“In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything” As you can see, Freja found the book Everything Everything very interesting, so I thought I should give it a go. Maddy has not left her house for seventeen years – if she does, she will die. Maddy is allergic to the world and
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“For all those fellow commuters, he was the reader, the bizarre character who each weekday would read out, in a loud, clear voice, from the handful of pages he extracted from his briefcase.”   If you are looking for a book that really shows a true passion for literature, then this is it!  A quick and
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