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JENNIFER PLATT | CNAche: is this really how the story ends?

The bookstore chain that brightened up my book-filled childhood is in deep trouble

09 June 2021 - 20:53 By jennifer platt
Jennifer Platt Sunday Times books editor

Whenever it is so cold, I remember my mom bundling us into her car on a Sunday after a mutton curry lunch and taking my sister, my brother and me to CNA to get books and stationery from the money we saved for doing our house chores and from the allowance we received from our aunt and uncles. ..

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