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|author=J Courtney Sullivan
|title=The Engagements
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Although you might not immediately realise it, this is the story of a ring, the people associated with it and of one particular ''real'' woman who created something of which few people can be unaware. That woman was Mary Frances Gerety, a copywriter with Ayer and Son - one of of the eminent advertising agencies in the nineteen forties. Under some pressure to come up with a phrase for de Beers adverts, Frances scribbled ''A Diamond is Forever'' - one of the most memorable lines in advertising. Frances never married but was probably single-handedly responsible for diamonds being the favoured stone in engagement rings. Her story weaves its way through the stories of our fictional couples.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089363</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=A year after the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslaved, and forced to work in the copper mines on Thalakrea, a volcanic island. The Crows still have the dagger of prophecy, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas is determined to escape and find his missing sister, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>
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