Murders, Mysteries, Names

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Bainbridge's irony in the messages she conveys to the reader, namely the irrationality of our existence, the impossibility for the harmony we aim at, and the fact that personal fulfilment is ultimately unattainable. Her work opened the way to the Italian
Nicoletta Brazzelli who, in Murders, Mysteries, Names (2009), takes into account
Bainbridge as a writer of historical fiction.

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