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A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
3.0

A little bit improved over the first, but also filled with some really antiquated prejudice around antisemitism and gypsies and such, and it’s so casual that I think Tey was just like, this is normal. It goes unchallenged and seems to spout from nearly anyone. I do like that she writes women fairly eclectically, even if the characters similarly have antiquated views on how women are, that seems more understandable from the time she’s writing in, less so the other issues. Was she trying to show the Everyman as a social commentary, casually prejudiced? If so, it seems too surface level to be pointed.