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Finishing What Not.
I can see why it's less known than Brave New World. I don't want to sound sexist but it comes across as a noticeably feminine book. Lots of discussion of people, little discussion of ideas. For example the main character begins by spending the opening of the book judging people's outfits. Also it's written in a strange tone, very characteristic of its era, which is not so much wry as it is arch. It's neither outright snooty or genuinely humorous, just persistently self-satisfied.
There is a story that pivots on a government eugenics policy but the book seems more concerned with how that affects people's intimate relationships than with the broad effects on society. As it stands the major threads are whether the main character will follow her heart or her head, and whether a village's uppity yokels and their staid vicar will acquiesce to their liberal-minded and better dressed metropolitan visitors.
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