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Originally Posted by Brown Rat Thoroughly charming book, and it tugged at my emotions. |
Oh mine too! There are scenes that I used to reread often and cry over every time. Although I used to be a very soft touch and choke up over TV commercials, so perhaps that's not so significant as it sounds. But my too-easily-invoked tears quite aside, there are parts of the book I found extremely moving. The first section, of course, is whimsical and very funny.
But in the matter of emotions, there is a certain sequence of events involving the Orkney children that a few people I know just can't get through, it's so profoundly upsetting to them.