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 No Graves as Yet - Anne Perry
 No Graves as Yet - Anne Perry ... by Headline ReviewNewest Review: ... a cricket match at Cambridge University, but I immediately felt a little disoriented. I can only assume that the research and ... more ... details of Cambridge in 1914 are correct (although I did learn at our event that Perry does not do her own research), but something just didn't seem right. I felt that the setting was too good, too historically accurate - so much so that I could not relate to it and felt a bit lost. There was no easy breaking in, no setting the scene like you often find with historical novels. It was straight into this (to me) alien world, and then within a couple of pages the story had kicked off with a bang.
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No Graves as Yet - Anne Perry: No enjoyment as yet! (675 words)
by - written on 25/10/09 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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No Graves As Yet by Anne Perry is the first novel in her First World War or Reavley Family series. I didn't choose to read this exactly - the author was coming to talk to my reading group, so we were given a pile of her books to choose from and the war setting of this appealed to me most. She has written, I think, 54 novels, mostly crime and detective stories, and I have to be honest and say I would never have picked up any of her books if it hadn't been for the reading group. No Graves As Yet follows the story of the Reavley siblings following the death of their parents in a car accident in summer 1914. War is threatening, and given their fathers message that ... Read the complete review
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