A review by ohnoitsharmony
Mariana by Monica Dickens

5.0

this was goddamned BRILLIANT - this quote alone on page 255 made me lose my mind: "If Paris had a feeling of its own in the air, so had England, but you only noticed it when you had been away. It was a feeling of damp, fresh security. Everything looked so right and so comfortably unexotic, like a cabbage. It seemed that even the breezes blew there because they knew that England was the only possible country in which to blow."

the second this lockdown is over, i'll be ransacking persephone's shelves!!