2021/144: Deep Secret -- Diana Wynne Jones

2021/144: Deep Secret -- Diana Wynne Jones

...here you can turn five corners and still not make a square. [p. 117]

Reread for Lockdown Book Club. I first read this fairly soon after it came out, in 1997: I recall enjoying it a lot, but I hadn't felt the urge to reread, and had (as usual) forgotten a lot of the details of plot and character. I'd also let some period-typical attitudes (most blatantly the fat-shaming) and dated technology (faxes! backup discs!) wash over me. The past is a foreign country...

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