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The Children of Dinmuth
There is a lot of cruelty but I think what you were saying about kindness is what I've always recognized as well because in the form of romance there's a one-legged farmer who is keeping her basically on the farm. And yet he tries to give her what he can which is to say go to the darts have your night. Everybody is allowed a sort of little redeeming feature. But don't you think that's never sentimental about that? There was a phase wasn't her in the early 70s of particular kind of very slim novels that had a very sinister tone. The Children of Dinmuth I think was one where it would have practically been a memorable boy villain in it.
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