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Amanda Craig thinks highly of Sarah Singleton's sixteenth-century-set second novel, Heretic:
Singleton’s rich, painterly description is one of the great pleasures of the novel, as is her portrait of a seductive, perilous land in which “time could be shaped and created, bound up, hastened or slowed” and where the immortals re-enact the same stories, which come down to us as fairytales. The clash between the mundane and magical has rarely been rendered so captivatingly sinister.
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