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Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy

Apr 1, 2025

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by

Heidi Darroch

in Louise Penny

“Nature’s in turmoil. Anything can happen.” Ruth Zardo, The Cruellest Month “Whan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote. . . .” Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Penny borrows the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as the title of her third Three…