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Written in diary and letter form, the novel brilliantly reveals the sisters' stories, as their lives become increasingly complex. Rarely has a male writer captured so well the inner life of female characters. And with Wright's extraordinary eye for small but telling details, the world of the thirties comes vividly to life, an era when show business was in its infancy, and the Dionnes grabbed the headlines, when Automats were a futuristic way of buying fast food and the Women's Auxiliary still ruled the social roost in small towns everywhere. Above all, Wright's portrait draws a world of young women – pre-divorce, pre-Pill, pre-liberation, where judgment weighed heavily upon anyone who defied convention.             Clara Callan is so elegantly and seamlessly constructed that the reader enters it effortlessly and does not depart willingly. 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