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pattiillbee11's review against another edition
Too many page long descriptions about the overly eccentric characters. Trying too hard to be clever. I'm a fan of the 'don't tell me, show me' style of writing.
heartofoak1's review against another edition
5.0
wonderfully dense prose. i felt like i was right there with each member of the family as they spent a year living with "aunt lily" in her antiques stuffed, rambling old house. some reviews complained that "nothing happened" which isn't really true! Plenty of stuff happened, general (more or less) living day-to-day stuff happened, just nothing monumental happened! it's more about an extended family and each members existential "crisis" of the moment. i loved it and will seek out the author's other work, she's wonderfully talented.
yooperann's review against another edition
5.0
I read the first one as a kindle bargain and then immediately went out and bought the next two. There's a reference in the last one to Angela Thirkell, and if you know Thirkell you'll have a sense of what these books are like. Overlapping characters in a distinctive setting, all of them--the characters and the setting--charming.