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|title=This Close by Jessica Francis Kane
|author=Jessica Francis Kane
|rating=5
|genre=Short Stories
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'This Close' is a sensitively written collection of short stories exploring the fragile nature of the bonds connecting friends, neighbours and family. As the title suggests, most of the stories contain pivotal moments where a missed opportunity, fleeting as it may be, can propel a person along a path culminating in regret or loss. Each story is poignantly written and perceptively observed. As a reader, I was drawn in and became so emotionally involved with the characters that it was often impossible to close the book until I knew how each story ended.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1555976360</amazonuk>
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|summary=Taking four families, from different social positions, Edward Rutherfurd weaves these family histories into the history of Paris and France. We encounter the noble de Cygnes, the bourgeois Blanchards, the lower class Gascons and the revolutionary Le Sourds. Their lives cross paths through the years in often unexpected ways and while ''Paris'' is an historical fiction novel, this is as much an epic story of families as it is about the history.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444736795</amazonuk>
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