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Presentday heroine alice, an aspiring screenwriter, travels from england to amherst, mass. He wrote shadowlands about cs lewis and worked on the script of gladiator. The lovers of amherst by william nicholson the sunday times. His brothers included admiral john amherst and lieutenant general william amherst. Alice dickinson no relation to the poet is a young british woman who has appeared in some of nicholsons earlier novels.
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