Shaun Bythell: Diary Of A Bookseller P/b W3 [2018] paperback ZCOOK she sees it offers hope

she sees it offers hope - of life after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man

love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII)

Of the last stolen hours before the first light of liberation

from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire to longing

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