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    "title": "Across the Common",
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    "description": "Louise leaves her husband and returns to the house where she was brought up. Her parents are long dead. Nowadays, The Hollies is a refuge for that vanishing species, the Great British Aunt. There is Aunt Seraphina, who steals cuttings from under park-keepers' noses; Aunt Rosa, who has only one eye but who hurls a cushion as straight as a die; and Aunt Cissie in her wheelchair, tiny and malevolent. Together, and not entirely willingly, they probe the secrets hidden by family pride, home truths that have been conveniently forgotten. Old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. As Aunt Cissie says, 'Reality's all right, but you can't live with it all the time.'",
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