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"textContent": "Revied by Erin Farley. Scottish Folk Tales of Love (The History Press, 2026), by Tom Muir, illustrated by Hester Aspland. I could pretend this is an objective review from a disinterested bystander, but Tom Muir, author of the present volume, has ever-so-slightly scuppered that by including a genuinely lovely paragraph about me in the acknowledgements. […]",
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