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The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple)

The Mirror Crackd from Side to Side

One had to face the fact: St. Mary Mead was not the place it had been. In a sense, of course, nothing was what it had been. You could blame the war (both the wars) or the younger generation, or women going out to work, or the atom bomb, or just the Government— but what one really meant was the simple fact that one was growing old.

They had not been very good with the telephone, and no good at all at arithmetic. On the other hand, they knew how to wash up, and how to make a bed. They had had skills, rather than education.

(W)here once there had been meadows with cows, there was the Development.

Publisher: William Morrow

Rating: 9/10

 

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