I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence. (Francis Spufford)

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

Francis Spufford

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