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She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.

Kate Atkinson

She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.

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