Plum Sykes
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Sykes, Victoria
- Födelsedag
- 1969-12-04
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- University of Oxford (Worcester College)
Walthamstow Hall
Sevenoaks School - Yrken
- fashion journalist
novelist - Relationer
- Sykes, Christopher Hugh (grandfather)
- Organisationer
- Vogue
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 2,578
- Popularitet
- #9,967
- Betyg
- 3.0
- Recensioner
- 58
- ISBN
- 119
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Very lightweight, borderline Young Adult novel. The characters of Ursula and Nancy could be developed further into a “detective duo” but hopefully not with the painful and vacuous Oxford students that featured throughout the novel. With the exception of Horatio very few of them had any redeeming qualities at all.
Also there was an often excessive use of footnotes to explain the idioms and fashions of the time. Some of these footnotes were quite entertaining and given Nancy’s unfamiliarity with all things English I thought they would have been better served being incorporated into the dialogue.
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