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This is what I call good advertising. I love Rose Tremain’s writing, but hadn’t noticed she had a new book out until I saw this poster (on Twyford station a few weeks ago). It lodged somewhere in my memory. The book, The Road Home, jumped out at me in my local library yesterday. I’ve just had to drag myself away at page 44 to go to bed.

Also from the library this week (and not the first time I’ve borrowed these):

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I’m still thinking about the funny little cottage. And about houseboats.

What this book doesn’t tell you is how to live in a small space when you have more books than bookshelves. Or more stuff than space.