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Description: Consider Her Ways : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780241972175 : 0241972175 : 04 Sep 2014 : Offers a collection of author's short tales. The Book Depository Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk

 

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Author: joyce islip

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Review: I love reading John Wyndhams books and have collected most of them. Thank you.

 

Author: lorna trevelyan

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Review: As a John Wyndham fan, I was interested to read these short stories, rather more subtle than his 'Day of the Triffids' and 'Midwich Cuckoos'etc. But, like the novels, the short stories make you think about our society and where it could be heading. Wyndham presents alternative futures which somehow seem dangerously close and possible.

 

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