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April Harding's avatar

Thank you for this marvelous review of the series - which I finished reading a couple of months ago.

You captured many of my own feelings about the books very well.

And, thanks especially for the "heads up" that Waugh wrote a novel about Emperor Constantine's mother. That book is at the top of my to-read queue now.

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Piers the Plowman's avatar

You are welcome! Helena is a nice, breezy, read. I can see why Waugh liked it. It deals with a subject he cares about and is interested in. It is not his best, but good fun nonetheless.

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