Reading Back #5: Buck’s Quiz – The Answers
Here they are, because we know you've spent a sleepless weekend in frantic anticipation: the answers.
*drumroll*
1. Robert Louis Stevenson.
2. Maxim de Winter.
3. Howards End.
4. Charles Dickens.
5. Mr Bingley.
6. Charles Pooter, Diary of a Nobody.
7. Stevens.
8. Lady Chatterley.
9. Thrushcross Grange.
10. Walter Scott.
11. Dr Johnson.
12. Rudyard Kipling.
13. Brideshead.
14. Bleak House.
15. A Doll’s House.
16. 7 Eccles Street.
17. Bertie Wooster.
18. Miss Shepherd, Lady in the Van.
19. Briony Tallis, Atonement.
20. Guiderius, son of Cymbeline.
More than 10? Help yourself to a biscuit.
More than 15: Make it a chocolate biscuit.
A perfect 20? Pick a star, any star, and call it your own.
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