Hints and tips:
...and Rosie....
...This speech’s climax did not send the party activists hurtling back to their constituencies to prepare for government – though neither did it leave them screaming for mercy or for a return to the feather-light...
...From then on, she was at the mercy of her Svengali....
...Yet your friends now refuse you even this small mercy. Literature is a great believer in tests, however – and the alliances that survive this will last forever....
...The historical setting of A Mercy is new for her – previous books have ranged from the 1870s (Beloved) to 1970s Oklahoma (Paradise)....
...You should have mercy on your neighbour – now and in the future. One day soon the offending stink will disappear and he will need your support....
...But Bickington also fits Camra’s model of the village at the mercy of an unfeeling pub company: Heavitree Brewery has not brewed since 1970, and owns 100 pubs in Devon....
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