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Monday, April 18 2011

In 'Caveat Emptor', Well-Observed Details Bring This Ancient World to Life

One of Ruth Downie's great strengths is her ability to evoke the historical milieu of Roman Britain—an uneasy land under occupation, some generations removed from the last great uprising against the occupiers but nonetheless a tense, forbidding place.

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