Lolly Willows, by Sylvia Townsend Warner

I expected to like this book (or I wouldn't have read it), but I did not expect to like it as much as I did. I suppose that was because I was put off by some slight peculiarities in the language: a way of ordering information that sometimes tripped up my eyes. But I was sold on it within pretty short order, because this novel is straight-up insane!

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