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    Mar 06, 2022 3 minutes
    by GILL SOUTH

    BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS, by Jillian Cantor (Simon & Schuster, $37.99)

    hen a seasoned writer looks at a classic novel, finds a key unanswered question and writes a whole new novel on the back of it, good things can happen. In , Jillian Cantor has pluckily done that with one of her country’s most treasured novels, F Scott Fitzgerald’s . The important question she asks, in this whodunnit set in the months after the death  is a well-structured, innovative and assured spin-off novel, delivered with aplomb.

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