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|author=Tessa Hadley
|title=The Past
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Tessa Hadley writes beautifully subtle stories of English family life. Her understated style has a touch of the 1950s or 1960s about it, calling to mind Elizabeth Taylor or early Margaret Drabble, and she seems to adapt classic genres like the novel of manners or the country house novel. Here she deliberately channels Elizabeth Bowen with a setup borrowed from ''The House in Paris'': the novel is divided into three parts, titled 'The Present', 'The Past', and 'The Present'. That structure allows for a deeper look at what the house and a neighbouring cottage have meant to the central family, and paves the way for one final shocker of a secret.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224101692</amazonuk>
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|author=Miriam Moss
|summary=Bear and Hare are playing hide and seek. Hare covers his eyes, turns to face the wall, counts slowly to ten and then goes looking for Bear. Unfortunately he's tried to hide ''behind'' and ''under'' the standard lamp and he's not ''exactly'' invisible. Well, let's be honest - he looks as though he's wearing a very strange hat. Still, we can always have another go, can't we? This time, after the ritual counting, Bear is behind a (very small) pile of books. OK, one more time? This time it's the fish tank. I'd like to be able to say that he was ''behind'' the tank, but he's visible over, under and through the tank. Even the fish look rather surprised.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273958</amazonuk>
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