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So does "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold, a forthcoming (July) literary page turner whose dead 14-year-old narrator unravels the circumstances and repercussions of her own murder.
Literary page turner The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Serpent's Tail) A tale of passionate friendship and intellectual curiosity set in a Victorian England where the theory of evolution is overturning all the old certainties – from religion and the role of women to politics and poverty, love and free will.
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Since then the scandal has played out in the literary pages of the German press.
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