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A review by elinrss
England, England by Julian Barnes
4.0
The middle was a bit of slog (took me the best part of a month to get through it), but the beginning was beautiful and the ending satisfied my little farming-simulator obsessed heart. Martha was a brilliant and very interesting character, although I felt like quite a few of the other characters were a bit underdeveloped. The scene with Sir Jack borderline traumatised me, ngl.
I read the line about Old England being paid to leave the EU to my mum and she laughed for several minutes because honestly, that's what might end up happening if we carry on the way we are.
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I, too, want to move to middle-Wessex, a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, when I'm an old maid and attend the village fete.I read the line about Old England being paid to leave the EU to my mum and she laughed for several minutes because honestly, that's what might end up happening if we carry on the way we are.