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balancinghistorybooks's review
3.0
I could wax lyrical about Celia Fremlin's books, and have done so for several of her titles. She is such a good writer. Unfortunately, Seven Lean Years is one of the weakest of her books which I have read to date. It was nowhere near as gripping, nor as immersive, as I was expecting, and I found its beginning very slow indeed. The pacing here felt off; almost all of the action is packed into the last fifth of the novel, and the ending feels rushed in consequence.
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