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Grown children, ageing parents, and the visit nobody makes time for.
An elderly couple travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children, who are too busy to spend much time with them. Only their widowed daughter-in-law makes room.
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Jane Austen
A second chance, eight years after saying no.
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George Eliot
A whole town, and every small compromise that holds it together.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
A southern vicar's daughter, a northern mill owner, and the city that changes them both.
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Mary Shelley
Not a monster story. A story about who gets called one.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
A party that never stops, thrown for one person who never comes.
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Fritz Lang · 1927
The city of the future, built on the people kept underneath it.
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Virginia Woolf
One June day, a party, and a life replayed between errands.
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David Lean · 1945
Two people, a station café, and everything they don't say.
With an ink rim
Holds a whole pot's worth of a long chapter.
Joni Mitchell · 1971
Songs that sound like someone telling you the truth at the kitchen table.
John Coltrane · 1965
A prayer in four parts, played on a saxophone.