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An Absence of Cousins: A Novel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A tragicomedy set in theThe first UK publication of Lore Segal's Pulitzer finalist novel, following on from her acclaimed Ladies' Lunch Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares the