This absorbing, uneven romantic comedy-drama, set in a small Irish town in 1957, takes its name from a travelling troupe.

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The title refers to the marriage of Jamie and Cathy, two appealing, twenty-something New Yorkers who set out on their romantic journey full of hope, optimism and vigor.

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But we still turn to the little waxy rods for light in a pinch, or to set the mood on a romantic night.

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So before launching its own premium whiskey, Brown-Forman set about hunting for a suitably romantic place to make it.

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But Twitter is, in the end, a networking tool and a news digest, not a life-style ideal by which people set their professional, financial, and romantic compasses.

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But the heart of the book is the story of how this full-blown late Romantic grew up in semi-detached suburbia by the River Thames during the second world war, and set out from there in search of a rainbow that turned out to be made of celluloid.

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