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Girl in a Blue Dress

This book is a historical fiction set in the early 20th century, focusing on the story of a young woman navigating love and self-discovery amidst societal expectations and personal challenges. more

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Gaynor Arnold
Gaynor Arnold

Gaynor Arnold is a renowned author. Details about her life and achievements are not available. more

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“The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.”

“It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.”