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    Jul 10, 2019 5 minutes
    REVIEWS ANNABEL LAWSON

    THE ANARCHISTS’ CLUB

    Alex Reeve, Raven Books, $29.99

    Facebook now acknowledges more than 70 distinctions of gender. Oh please. In Victorian London, Leo Stanhope is a hospital porter. Born Charlotte, Leo runs away from home in order to live as a man. It isn’t long before he (that is how Leo identifies) is in the frame for murder. An old friend needs an alibi and blackmails poor Leo, thrusting him even deeper into deception. His only hope is to solve the murder. Working conditions of the 19th century are evoked with grisly gusto. When Leo boldly rescues and protects two kidnapped waifs, a feminine tenderness emerges. Reeve cleverly avoids the trap of letting our familiarity with Dickens define the scene. What he serves up is new and provocative.

    THE ROAD TO GRANTCHESTER

    James Runcie,

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