{"id":24198,"date":"2025-01-18T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24198"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:27:01","slug":"hither-page-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24198","title":{"rendered":"Hither, Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hither, Page<\/em><\/a> (2019) Cat Sebastian<\/a> (Page & Sommers #1)<\/p>\n

\"Hither,<\/a>Set in England in 1946<\/p>\n

What I love best about this book is she makes the time period (and much everything else) exactly like it does in the Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple series. Only with some boinking.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t hold it against him. He had a bad war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Agnes also has it on good authority that Colonel Armstrong pays this secretary only half what some other fellow pays his own secretary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDare I ask where Wendy got the sugar?\u201d Sommers eyed his half-eaten scone with a sort of guilty hunger. \u201cLast I heard, she used all her coupons on peppermint creams for the children at the vicarage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve missed an evil element right on my doorstep. Either my powers of observation are lamentably poor, or this evil element is so ingrained into the fabric of our lives here that it\u2019s become invisible to me. And, James, I don\u2019t know which is worse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(E)veryone seemed younger when they weren\u2019t in the middle of a war. He supposed it was regular sleep and not being shot at that worked the magic, which meant he wasn\u2019t about to find out firsthand any time soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By the next station, Leo was left with a lapful of shiny foil paper, gimcrack toys, and zero intact crackers. He had unraveled his mystery and was left with nothing but trash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Mildred Hoggett, Dr James Sommers, Leo Page, Sir Alexander Templeton, Colonel Bertram Armstrong, Edward Norris, Mary Griffiths, Polly Griffiths, Owen Griffiths, Miss Cora Delacourt, Miss Edith Pickering, Marston, Wendy Smythe, Agnes, Mrs Clemens, Mrs Patel, Edwin Nesbitt, Sally Bright<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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