The Pretender

by Jane Stevenson

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2nd part of trilogy. Thoroughly enjoyed, as blurbed: you forget it is set in a time that you have not experienced personally. Great characterisation. Sustained the story-line, despite the 20 year interlude since the end of the last book. Recommended. (

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