Miss Buncle’s Book, by D.E. Stevenson I either take a long time to decide what I should read or listen to next, or I do it on a whim, with no clear idea why. The later is the scenario which made me download Miss Buncle’s Book sometime at the beginning of the year, but it was a serendipitous choice. Moreover, discovering that there are two more books in the series felt like a real treat and I devoured all of them in a blink. Source 1, 2 This book seems to me to sit in a particular…
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