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Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
4.0

Good golly, Miss Lolly! On the scrapheap before 30, unwanted spinster Laura Willowes retires to the country where what could have been an urbes in rure version of Gissing’s odd women takes a macabre turn; Miss Willowes attends a sabat and decides the Devil is a more agreeable fellow than she thought. A striking rejection of conformity for all women - and others - who “know they are dynamite and long for the concussion that may justify them.”