“There was something disruptive about Christmas and not only in the merely material way. The original Christmas had proved exceedingly disrupting to the entire world and the tremors of the original event vibrated through every life year by year.”

The Scent of Water (1963), Chapter 14.2

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English fiction writer 1900–1984

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