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    "annotation": "Up-and-coming composer Ralph visits a potential collaborator's home and becomes obsessed with a nine-year-old occupant of the house, with a secret relationship beginning. Years later Daphne confronts the nature of her childhood, in this sensitive taboo-addressing novel for fans of Alan Hollinghurst and Penelope Fitzgerald",
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