Kinda sucks when a book that objectively occupies an important niche for historical and sociological reasons (debut novel, featuring lesbian, socialist, feminist journalist-turning-detective who gets the girl and doesn't experience homophobia within the book, published in 1987, the year before Section 28 (which blocked the "promotion of homosexuality" in school and thus functionally its discussion at all) was brought in by Maggie Thatcher) is a solid 2/5.
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