Carrie rated Queen and country: 4 stars

Emma Vickers: Queen and country (2013)
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Emma Vickers: Queen and country (2013)

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice …

Karen Masterson: The malaria project (2014)
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