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im not sure i would recommend it for those wanting a mystery or thriller. although its labelled as such, the primary focus is on 2 sisters and how the disharmonize in northern republic of ireland impacts their lives. its more domestic drama with a chip of espionage, if annihilation.
this is a good book for anyone interested in the troubles or the history of northern ireland in general. i dearest that reese witherspoon picked this for her bookclub choice as i feel like this is a function of history that often gets forgotten.im not certain i would recommend it for those wanting a mystery or thriller. although its labelled every bit such, the main focus is on 2 sisters and how the conflict in northern ireland impacts their lives. its more than domestic drama with a chip of espionage, if annihilation.
its a short, slow-paced novel that explores how much a person is willing to practise for their family, what loyalty really ways, and what sure sacrifices will realistically reach.
as someone who finds the struggle between nationalists and unionists in northern ireland terribly fascinating, this was definitely the book for me.
a big cheers to viking for sending me a re-create!
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Outset of all, the book definitely grabs your attention and there are certainly some scary and tense scenes as the threat level in Northern Republic of ireland escalates. I like the premise
Tessa works for the BBC in Belfast on a weekly political programme and gets the stupor of her life when her sister Marion appears on TV participating in an IRA robbery of a petrol station. What unfolds is a scary journey for Tessa whose overriding thoughts are about protecting her baby son Finn. The story is told past Tessa.First of all, the book definitely grabs your attention and there are certainly some scary and tense scenes as the threat level in Northern Ireland escalates. I like the premise of just how well do you really know someone every bit Marion sure fools Tessa for years and it also near how a parent will practise all they tin to survive in social club to protect a much loved child.
However, I have major issues with the book. The writing is very dispassionate except when describing Finn but I'll requite the author the do good of the doubt on that ane and assume that is deliberate and that Tessa's actions are out of numbness rather than lack of emotion. I think the book would have been much more than interesting and revealing if nosotros'd had Marion's perspective, later all its more often than not her story. There are large plot holes such as Marion's unmasked revealed face up at the petrol station (she did put information technology on), that'southward a rookie error that someone with 7 years experience in the IRA would not make. In one case the NI police know that Marion is IRA then no way would the cell ask Tessa to picket for them as they know Tessa would be under surveillance nor would Marion so attend a wedding for the same reason. I could go along as in that location's at to the lowest degree 1 more specially towards the cease. My biggest trouble is that information technology describes the province during the Troubles and non years on from the Good Friday Agreement. I checked three times that it is set mail service GFA! I absolutely acknowledge this is a work of fiction and too that the problems accept non magically gone away but I think it's misleading. Even so, that's but my opinion and others may feel differently. On a smaller bespeak although I actually like how the book gets its title, Northern Spy apples are not widely available in the UK and I'd never heard of them before!!
Overall, I actually liked Flynn Berry's previous books and I'll always want to read what she comes up with but this one is non for me. There are some very good sections in it however not sufficient to outweigh my issues.
With thanks to NetGalley and Orion Publishing Group for the arc in return for an honest review.
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Some critical points. Sometimes the frontward motion of the story is greatly slowed past the domestic subplots which were interesting, but I wanted more spy story. Information technology'south almost equally if the spy story was an afterthought. As well, a couple of minor points, the author wasn't knowledgeable or vetted the size of bombs. In that location are 45 tons of explosives to make xxx bombs, a ton and a half bomb would take downwardly two or three buildings or more than. In that location is also a listening device planted under the marble eye of a blimp deer. How would the mic work glued-down under a marble? Sounds a niggling nit-picky even as I write this, though it did dump me out of the Fictive Dream.
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Tessa, a producer at the BBC in Belfast, can't believe what she's seeing on the screen right now. The anchor is reporting the latest IRA incident with film taken at the scene of the armed robbery showing Tessa's sister Marian pulling a mask over her face.
This tin can't be possible! Tessa and Marian agree the aforementioned view point about the violence of the IRA. It can't be Marian, she'southward on vacation and out of the area. When Tessa re
"Northern Spy" past Flynn Drupe is a story with besides many implausible issues!Tessa, a producer at the BBC in Belfast, tin't believe what she's seeing on the screen correct now. The anchor is reporting the latest IRA incident with film taken at the scene of the armed robbery showing Tessa'south sister Marian pulling a mask over her face.
This can't be possible! Tessa and Marian hold the same view point well-nigh the violence of the IRA. It can't be Marian, she's on vacation and out of the area. When Tessa reaches out to Marian for answers, there'southward never a response.
Tessa believes Marian was abducted and forced to assist the IRA. She'd never do something like this willingly. The police disagree and are actively searching for Marian. They're asking Tessa lots of questions she can't respond and her concern for Marian's condom is spiking! Why isn't Marian responding to Tessa and where is she at present?
This story is told entirely in the first person voice of Tessa. In that location'south a lack of emotion in her words, her voice e'er sounding monotone and matter-of-fact. It's like she'southward reporting facts and non living the experience of someone whose sister is seen in the act of committing a crime. I craved to hear Marian's vox for another perspective and to add the depth to this story that is noticeably lacking.
A very dull moving story that I didn't connect with until 75% in is far too long to expect to become engaged. Withal, the book is only 286 pages and I was curious how it would end. I should take listened to my inner-voice though because the ending was completely improbable.
I listen to the audiobook and the narrator Katharine Lee McEwan did a fine job. It was the story I didn't care for and the format I chose wouldn't have mattered. While listening to this IRA based story I kept thinking, "Well, that would never happened".
There are too many glaring implausible bug to make this one a satisfying read for me! Time to movement on....
2.5 stars rounded up for the efforts of this wonderful narrator! Her vox was perfect.
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As a pro, this book was somewhat entertaining and a quick and suspenseful read. Even so, the one thing I couldn't go past the unabridged book was that the historical context was so poorly set upward. This book did a basic interpretation of common events of the Troubles in a mod setting and mentioned historical events equally well equally the 1998 Good Friday agreement, but then proceeded to write the story every bit if that issue hadn't taken place and never exp
A disappointing read that failed its historical contextAs a pro, this book was somewhat entertaining and a quick and suspenseful read. However, the ane matter I couldn't get by the unabridged volume was that the historical context was and then poorly gear up. This volume did a bones interpretation of mutual events of the Troubles in a modernistic setting and mentioned historical events likewise equally the 1998 Adept Friday understanding, but then proceeded to write the story equally if that consequence hadn't taken place and never explained the events that led to continued intense violence in the book. It never best-selling the political parties the IRA has evolved into or the New IRA. It also failed to introduce the reason for the disharmonize other than a uncomplicated Catholic 5 Protestant perspective. I really felt like this would have been much better and more than impactful if information technology had been set up before on in the disharmonize or if it had tried to establish a more well explained what-if alternate scenario.
I just feel this volume failed what is likely to exist a largely American audience by giving a bare bones history lesson that didn't come shut to capturing the complexities of this conflict and wrapped it upward in a thriller that left the reader with a ton of plot holes and lazily researched storyline.
I'm honestly disappointed that this was a Reese'due south volume club pick considering information technology shows whoever picked information technology does non understand this conflict.
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Tessa works as a producer at the BBC when a clip well-nigh a robbery at a gas station comes through. The clip shows the 3 robbers equally they put on their balaclavas and 1 is her sister. She is in a state of disbelief. Her sis had thou This curt volume was an middle opener for me. I had assumed the Troubles were over subsequently the Expert Fri Agreement. Only this volume put that myth to bed. It might be two decades after the Proficient Friday Understanding, but the IRA is still alive and well, albeit more cloak-and-dagger.
Tessa works as a producer at the BBC when a clip about a robbery at a gas station comes through. The clip shows the iii robbers as they put on their balaclavas and i is her sis. She is in a land of disbelief. Her sister had given no inkling that she was involved with the IRA. In fact, Tessa initially remains convinced that her sis was somehow abducted or coerced.
I loved the writing, concise but still descriptive. Cleaved glass was "Belfast confetti".
The story delves into the bonds of family unit. What risks are you willing to accept to protect those you love? This book just drew me in. It'southward not fast paced, but there is a strong sense of suspense and tension throughout.The characters, particularly Tessa, were well developed.
I listened to this and enjoyed Katherine Lee McEwen's operation. She captured the emotions of Tessa and the stress of the situation.
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I was confused at first because I idea this book was set during the Troubles but at some point the cell phones and technology drove me to the internet where I discovered the IRA has rebranded itself and continues to fight. (The USA still calls it the IRA; other places it's referred to as The New IRA.) The novel is sent xx years after the Good Fri Understanding in 1998, which the internet says ended "most" of the violence. Well this is the other part. One article even links information technology to Brexit.Information technology starts with Tessa, a single female parent who works for the BBC from Belfast. The police call up her sister Marian is working for the IRA, which is unfathomable, and the more than she knows, the more than she gets pulled in.
I love a good spy novel just also feel I should say the writing is stellar, and the author captures the complexity of the lives of women and female relationships amid a very tense plot, very impressive.
Here are a few examples, not final copy then wording may vary slightly:
"At home, I take off my clothes and drop information technology in the hamper...Once the dress is washed, maybe information technology won't seem tainted by today, though I already know I'll never wearable it again, similar the jumper I had on that day on Elgin Street, and the necklace I took off my throat while walking away from the collapsed edifice, like having it on was disrespectful, frivolous."
"There's always someone, for a mother, to tell yous to pull your socks up." (so many opinions from strangers and neighbors about every piffling child rearing thing)
"We keep talking, and something settles in me, like silt falling to the bottom of a river. I feel more than at-home than I have in weeks. This isn't and so difficult. I'chiliad a adult female, later on all, so I've had a lifetime of exercise guessing what a man wants me to say, or be. Seamus wants me to be brisk and capable, and he wants me to be angry, which I am, just not in the direction he thinks. Seamus asks me questions, and every bit I answer them, directly and mostly honestly, I recollect: I'm going to destroy you lot."
"Damian has some scotch, and I picket him carefully note downward each of his drinks in the ledger. He's planning to murder someone tomorrow, but he won't steal drinks from an honesty bar."
"On air, the students are thoughtful and wry and tough... They painted extra letters onto 1 landscape, irresolute it from Join the IRA to Join the Library."
(I plant this was a existent matter that happened!)
I had an eARC from the publisher through NetGalley; it came out Apr 6th. Reese picked it for her volume club then it should be everywhere before long.
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She is shocked when Marian confesses to being an IRA member for the by 7 years, all the same after a bomb she made failed to explode she is being carefully watched by her counterparts and viewed with suspicion. And all for good reason since she's been feeding information to MI5 but is now no longer able to meet her British handler. Once the daze of the revelations wearable off, Tessa agrees to get a double amanuensis too and is accustomed into Marian's crew. She'southward asked to take part in some pretty dangerous tasks for the IRA and then reports these to her British handler. Merely Tessa isn't as cut out for deceit, deception and espionage as her free-spirited sister and struggles to balance her life as mother of young Finn in a small, remote town and walking the tightrope betwixt terrorist and informer hoping for a brighter, safer and more than secure future for both Republic of ireland and her precious son. This is a scintillating spy thriller set confronting a volatile Belfast backdrop and featuring a wickedly twisty plot with a theme of sisterhood at its eye. Taut, moving and palpably tense, this is a tale of tested and alien loyalties in a securely divided Northern Ireland still experiencing reverberations from the dreaded days of The Troubles. Through the employ of brusk, pithy capacity, Berry ratchets up the suspense and at times it becomes nigh unbearably perilous. Fighting their manner through a minefield of loyalty, betrayal and chilling ideology, this claustrophobic and oppressively atmospheric work of lyrically written Irish noir is an exploration of the contemporary IRA, the honey we hold for family, the trials and tribulations of maternity and the sacrifices nosotros must make to achieve peace. Highly recommended.
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That feeling of not being able to escape one time you get involved in an arrangement such as the IRA, or MI5, of a noose around your cervix, pulled tighter and tighter the more you lot attempt to escape. Naught is what information technology seems and no one tin can be trusted.
Northern Spy gives y'all a glimpse into the violence in Northern Republic of ireland, and what the IRA members were and what they did. You also have a lilliputian glimpse of the informers. Also at the heart of this story is that of two sisters Tessa and Marian. If
I'thousand going correct downwardly the middle with my three star rating for this book. While the book held my interest and kept me turning pages fast enough, I'chiliad nonetheless left a little underwhelmed with the whole story. This story felt too rushed and convoluted for me.Northern Spy gives you a glimpse into the violence in Northern Ireland, and what the IRA members were and what they did. You also have a little glimpse of the informers. Besides at the center of this story is that of two sisters Tessa and Marian. If I'g being honest, I don't think either ane of these ii individuals made good choices. Particularly that of Tessa- I feel that she made jerky decisions and worried more most her sister than newborn son. I don't have whatever sisters, and so perhaps my thoughts on this are non right.
I may non have even chosen this book to read, just considering I'k in a honey/detest relationship with Reese Witherspoon and her book lodge picks, I gave this a get. This book was okay, but I'll probably forget all about it past weeks end. This book was not i of my favorites from Reese's book gild picks.
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Flynn Berry has a new book out! And with all the publishing book buzzes I've watched online this yr I somehow hadn't heard about this one earlier a few weeks ago, and then there'southward a small delight in this ridiculous year, in which I accept now read i good novel set in Ireland and written in the present tense. This was meant to be my read-on-work-breaks book for the week just instead I absolutely inhaled this, missing the atmos
I received a copy of this from Netgalley and Viking in commutation for a review.Flynn Drupe has a new volume out! And with all the publishing book buzzes I've watched online this yr I somehow hadn't heard near this one before a few weeks ago, so there'south a small delight in this ridiculous twelvemonth, in which I have now read i adept novel set in Republic of ireland and written in the present tense. This was meant to be my read-on-work-breaks book for the week just instead I admittedly inhaled this, missing the atmosphere and the characters and Berry's impeccably lovely footling details when I had to do anything other than proceed with it. Her writing is simply as rich and ethereal as e'er, and though this is a tense but not air-tight thriller almost the IRA for reasons I'll get into in a moment, the real delight and heft of the story lies in Tessa's relationship with her baby Finn, whom she is raising mainly lone, Finn's dad Tom on the periphery for parenting fourth dimension with his son on Sundays. I adored Tessa's devotion to her son and all of the trivial facets virtually caring for a babe that are like shooting fish in a barrel to forget about since it's been over 10 years since I was in that game. How information technology physically aches to be away from him, the unbelievable exhaustion and how delightful he is in spite of it. Sometimes life just sits in its groove and does its matter and you let slip from your heed the wonder that you've made a whole other person and how remarkable and marvelous that is (especially when they happen to be a totally awesome smart-ass genius similar my particular person) and I loved how much Tessa cherished her son.
The simply bummer of this book is that the more I option at the plot the more it unravels like a ratty sweater. (view spoiler)[To start with, why didn't Marian merely put her balaclava on before she was on photographic camera and avoid the whole mess? If the police were already watching Marian's apartment, doesn't it stand that they'd be watching Tessa at least part of the time, peradventure taking an involvement when she suddenly starts having tense conversations in public with a woman with bleached pilus? And the idea that the IRA would retrieve that the sister of a volunteer who'south known to the police would brand a good scout seems bonkers to me; it seems like she would invite more scrutiny from the police only by clan. Also, once Tessa is presumed dead, doesn't anyone in Tom'southward family wonder where Finn has gone? If Finn's mom is expressionless, surely the expectation would be that Tom would get custody of his son, not that his son disappeared into thin air but Tom needs to start taking all of these mysterious trips to Dublin all of a sudden; also, how could Finn always be allowed to come and visit Tom? Or maybe I don't know enough about custody or parenting time in Ireland and everyone supposes that Finn has gone away with Tessa's mom, but that seems similar at the very least it would be an awfully complicated courtroom battle. (hide spoiler)] Withal, one of my very favorite books ever is The Likeness, the premise of which is absolutely mad on its face and that doesn't stop me from loving it to bits, nor shall the break of disbelief required to read this book keep me from loving it every bit well. At some point Tessa asks herself, "Why would I demand help? I have my son. I have my body, I have food, weather, a stack of books to read," which is then like what I tell myself in gratitude every dark of every mean solar day I'm allowed that it made me pause and wonder if Drupe was in my brain (this is nonwithstanding the fact that Tessa, much like all of the states, has suffered quite a bit of trauma and does definitely need help) and it feels worth 4 stars just for that.
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Oh, how I loved every moment of this novel! I tin understand why Reese Witherspoon chose this for her book club.
"Northern Spy" tells the story of a BBC producer named Tessa who is covering a burglary carried out by the IRA. In the middle of the coverage, she suddenly sees her sister (Marian) hop out of a van and put a ski mask over her face. Tessa refuses to believe that her sister has joined the terrorist group. As the police start questi
"I'm going to meet them once again...one day, when we're onetime".Oh, how I loved every moment of this novel! I tin sympathise why Reese Witherspoon chose this for her book club.
"Northern Spy" tells the story of a BBC producer named Tessa who is roofing a burglary carried out past the IRA. In the middle of the coverage, she suddenly sees her sis (Marian) hop out of a van and put a ski mask over her face up. Tessa refuses to believe that her sister has joined the terrorist group. As the police start questioning Tessa and revealing facts to her, she presently finds out that there are a lot of secrets Marian has been keeping from her for years.
Tessa before long has to make a conclusion to either put her son's life at hazard and fight for the greater good or to walk away, leaving her sister to fend for herself and possibly be killed.
I was riveted with this story from beginning to ending, not sure how it was going to play out until the terminate. I listened to the audiobook version narrated by Katharine Lee McEwan. Her Irish accent is amazing! Five stars for me. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
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The writing is what saves this and the characters are thoughtful and well-developed. I am see I thought that this was going to be a spy thriller in the usual sense, and in some respects, information technology was. I learned a lot about the IRA, the tactics, the recruitment, the counter espionage employed by England. All the same, it was really a story of Tessa, her search for her sis Marian, and her son Flynn. Their personal lives provide the storyline and the fact that Marian has joined the IRA, is almost a subplot.
The writing is what saves this and the characters are thoughtful and well-adult. I am seeing that the story is out of context historically, simply that doesn't bother me. The troubles in Northern Republic of ireland provided the backdrop needed to help Tessa on her emotional journey which included whatsoever she could do to make the earth a better place for her son, Flynn. ...more
The biggest flaw I found in this book has to do with ane
I was looking forwards to this book for a number a reasons. A new writer I had never read earlier and subject matter about which I knew very little, set in a place near which I knew even less. I causeless the writer is Irish and had first-mitt cognition of the ongoing conflict in her land, but sadly I was very wrong. And I mean seriously wrong. It seems calling mom "mam" and a lake "lough" is the extent of her knowledge of Northern Ireland.The biggest flaw I found in this volume has to exercise with one of the basic tenets of spycraft - secrecy. Spies don't tell anybody what they are doing. Secret agents don't blab most their latest monkeyshines. Secret law don't share the details of their assignments. Except in Flynn Drupe's world they exercise. Just ask and they'll tell you lot everything with no concerns that you just might let it sideslip to the wrong person what y'all at present know.
Then again, maybe non. Because even the law and government officials are morons also who accept no clue how to behave an investigation. I don't even want to explain how flawed the execution of witness protection is in this book, or the fact that top, trained snipers can't hitting the wide side of a barn.
So if you're looking for a political thriller, which is how this book is existence marketed, yous'll be very disappointed. Information technology's much more virtually the foreign, bad choices a mother makes and the angst she feels as a consequence. Then once again, even this came off as overly melodramatic and I had to wonder if the author has e'er met the mother of a minor toddler let alone been ane.
So cipher to recommend here. Glad I'1000 done.
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The pacing was quick and the volume kept me engaged, and I was able to read it in a few relatively curt sittings...
The characters on the other hand felt flat and archetypal. The author portrayed Tessa as the young single female parent whose sole preoccupation is raising her infant son. She was constantly thinking nigh him which seemed at odds with her conclusion to become a spy and risk her life. I am all for heros but to decide on such a path equally a gainfully employed single mother of an babe at a point in fourth dimension where she could accept just stepped abroad seemed quite implausible and plausible explanation were not provided. Her graphic symbol wasn't the merely one who lacked depth. It just wasn't the volume for me !
The story is ho-hum and dull. There is no energy in the writing. The ending wasn't surprising and there are no characters to love, back up or seem very relatable (for me at least). It's short, clipped, dispassionate, and the characters lack personality.
I was quite disappointed with this as a Reese volume selection.
There's also an odd amount of utilize with the word "mam".
Not Worth ItThe story is tedious and dull. In that location is no free energy in the writing. The ending wasn't surprising and there are no characters to love, back up or seem very relatable (for me at least). It'south short, clipped, dispassionate, and the characters lack personality.
I was quite disappointed with this every bit a Reese book pick.
There's also an odd amount of use with the discussion "mam".
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I grew up thinking that Belfast had to be the worse place to live in the world - this author does an excellent job of capturing the tension that existed in living in
If I said I had a chip of a soft spot for Ireland that wouldn't quite be the truth. I've a good chunk of Irish in me, but more southern than the Northern Ireland this is placed. Tessa is in between a stone and a hard place - between her sister and the IRA, between the IRA and British intelligence, betwixt her feelings and her morals.I grew upward thinking that Belfast had to be the worse place to live in the world - this author does an excellent job of capturing the tension that existed in living in a function of the world torn up by terrorism. There, the terrorists are the boys you grew upwards with, and the fear never lessens.
A solid read - 4 stars for creating tension and the relational writing. The love between sisters, for ones land, ones child, and all the other loves…
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I actually enjoyed the novel. The author uses an attractive, figurative fashion that makes for an easy read. Putting aside the historical inaccuracies, I think she paints an intense canvas of family life during a sectarian war. The first half of the novel was a description of the tension and fear that run through a community when violence, reprisals and protection rackets control peoples' lives. Being in Belfast in the 70'south I witnessed the IRA-endemic taxicabs belching smoke along the Falls Road, the black skeletons of bombed homes, the desolated boarded-up stores, graffiti inciting violence in Catholic enclaves and the pervading sense of hopelessness everywhere. Flynn does a smashing job here.
In the second half the book makes a subtle turn. It moves away from family unit life and relationships and shifts gear into a thriller. I tin't imagine what the life of an informer is similar. E'er expecting to be constitute out? Never quite sure if you lot tin can trust your handler? Are your colleagues informers as well? Again Flynn shows how debilitating such a life is.
Shawn Callon, author of The Diplomatic Spy, wrote this review.
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The premise of the story is that the IRA has gone underground merely is nevertheless active despite the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Information technology explores how far we will go to protect f
Set in 2018 in Northern Ireland, Tessa is a single mother to six-month-erstwhile Finn. She works equally a producer at the Belfast arm of the BBC. When she sees her sister on camera, committing a robbery with the IRA, she assumes her sister was abducted. She is questioned by the police. She eventually must cull whether or not to get involved.The premise of the story is that the IRA has gone surreptitious but is nevertheless active despite the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. It explores how far nosotros will go to protect family and whom to protect when we cannot protect everyone. Equally a story of family unit, difficult decisions, and suspenseful situations, it is effective. However, I do not call up the writer sets up the historical context very well. She immensely oversimplifies the bug involved in The Troubles. It would have made more sense to ready the story in the 1970s - 1990s. It reads like an alternate history, which is, perhaps, the writer's intent, but it should be made clear to the reader.
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