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The house of the scissors

by Isobel Chace

The only women who interested Lucien Manners, they told Arabella, were long dead ones - like Cleopatra and Dido and Sappho - none of whom had anything in common with an empty-headed mode girl, far too young for her age, whom Lucien had described as a "street arab". Arabella had better stop thinking about him...

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?