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The Quincunx, Charles Palliser

I read about Charles Palliser on this website, but The Unburied, which is the book she actually reviewed, wasn’t at the library.  So I got this instead.  It is full of London, so I thought that would be a point in its favor.  I think of London almost every day, because I miss it so much and I want to go back.  And also it is gorgeous and perfect. London’s lovely perfection is not so much in evidence in The Quincunx.  The protagonist, John Huffam, spends a lot of time being really unhappy in (Victorian) London, due to the seedier…

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