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• Review: Havisham – Elle Machray

  You’ll know of Miss Havisham through Dickens’ Great Expectations but get ready to find out who she was and could be when women write their own stories. One of my favourite reads of the year, a stunning reworking of one of literacy’s most ignored women.

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  Apr 28, 2026

  Book Reviews, Fiction – Contemporary & Literary, Fiction – Historical

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