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The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders by Robertson Davies |
A small village in Canada, at 5.58 p.m. on 27 December 1908 a snowball is thrown, a little boy ducks and a heavily pregnant woman falls to the ground. This action will determine the lives of the three main protagonists - school-teacher Duncan Ramsay, sugar-baron Boy Staunton and Paul Dempster whose birth it precipitates - and whose destiny will be the most extraordinary of all. I had never read any of Robertson Davies's books and when I began this trilogy I wasn't even sure I wanted to, instead I was under his spell all through the summer. Here is a world which is real and often uncomfortable but always there is a feeling of magic and wonderment. Who did kill Boy Staunton? What is a Manticore? - read and find out!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 90 Autumn 2018 ) |
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