👶 Heat Wave, by Penelope Lively

This was a difficult read, primarily due to the redundancy in the descriptions. I will take the author's lead and say this in another way: there was just too much extraneous detail. I was ready to put the book down several times because I read so many descriptions of landscapes. It truly left me exhausted just waiting for the author to get to the point! Furthermore, though I consider myself a fairly intelligent individual, some of the vocabulary was just plain frustrating and unnecessary.

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