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Lissa Evans is that rare thing: a contemporary author of beautifully written, tightly plotted novels that don't feel they need to tick any boxes but allow the sharply delineated characters to be themselves and the story to come through. V for Victory completes her WW2 trilogy that began with Old Baggage (also wonderful, as is the second one, Crooked Heart), in which gawky, eccentric orphan Noel and his initially reluctant adoptive 'aunt' Vee Sedge fight for economic survival in a bombed out London. Clever, engaging, intriguing, historically fascinating, written by a master storyteller who can switch from comedy to heart-wrenching…

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