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Mr Peacock’s Possessions
by Lydia Syson
(Zaffre Publishing, £12.99)
LYDIA SYSON’S earlier books for young adults, A World Between Us, about British involvement in the Spanish civil war and the Paris Commune in Liberty’s Fire, were rightly praised for their historical accuracy and dramatic narratives.
Her latest appears to straddle both young and adult fiction but cannot decide which age group it wishes to address.
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