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Barber, Black Sheep is a Historical Fiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in Victorian England in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss's best friend, a local nobleman.Ann Neville's website can be found here.
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A Taste of the Lash
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A Taste of the Lash: Oliver experiences this punishment while at Flitwith Prison.
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The Dutiful Son
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The Dutiful Son: This is the role Winston played in the Winslow family when they were children, and the sense of responsibility for their collective well-being clearly extends to the present.
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Chore Character Exploration
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Chore Character Exploration: Several conversations throughout the novel take place while Oliver or Kittie are taking care of household tasks and conversing with their respective halves of the supporting cast.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: One of the Winslow siblings, Lucy, died as an infant prior to the events of the novel.
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Half-Sibling Angst
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Half-Sibling Angst: Averted. Lucius repeatedly expresses how much he loves his half-siblings and their children.
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Spoiled Sweet
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Spoiled Sweet: Hannah Harrington.
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Scullery Maid
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Scullery Maid: This is Kittie's role at the Harrington Estate.
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Prisoner's Work
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Prisoner's Work: Oliver spent a fair amount of his time at Flitwith pulling ropes apart by hand and digging up bushes.
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Dead Guy Junior
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Dead Guy Junior: Oliver and Kittie name their first-born child Lucy, after Oliver's little sister who died as an infant.
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Shipper on Deck
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Shipper on Deck: Simon and Cora serve as this for Kittie/Oliver. Averted by Evelyn, who is decidedly against the relationship until the end of the novel.
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Quintessential British Gentleman
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Quintessential British Gentleman: Lord Issac Harrington is one of these.
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Parental Substitute
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Parental Substitute: Spurgeon serves as a surrogate father for Oliver.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: The Harrington Estate is depicted as such.
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Funetik Aksent
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Funetik Aksent: Kittie's mother, Birdie, has her speech rendered this way.
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Evil All Along
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Evil All Along: Leslie Barry.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Oliver stole a small family heirloom (admittedly a memento from their deceased mother) from Barry's half-brother and damaged it in the process of returning it, so Barry first decides to frame him for another theft. When that doesn't work, he upgrades to attempting to murder Oliver.
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Beta Couple
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Beta Couple: The novel has two of them which form near the end of the work: Harrington/Spurgeon and Cora/Hannah.
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Successful Sibling Syndrome
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Successful Sibling Syndrome: Oliver feels like a failure compared to his siblings, Evelyn and Winston.
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Uncle Pennybags
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Uncle Pennybags: Lucius serves as this for Oliver and the rest of the Winslow Family.
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Little Miss Con Artist
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Little Miss Con Artist: Part of Kittie's backstory.
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Hellhole Prison
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Hellhole Prison: Flitwith, where Oliver spent his incarceration, absolutely qualifies.
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Hates Their Parent
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Hates Their Parent: Oliver despised his father, Caspar, before the latter's death.
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Dramatic Shattering
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Dramatic Shattering: This is what happens to the glass horse when Oliver tries to return it to Dunham, as a nearby hansom cab whizzes too close to comfort and startles Oliver into dropping the trinket.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: The novel ends with the reveal that Oliver and Kittie have had their first child, Lucy Junior, and that Winston and Laura have also had another child, Charles.
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Sticky Fingers
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Sticky Fingers: Oliver is a kleptomaniac.
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Prison Changes People
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Prison Changes People: Oliver leaves Flitwith Prison heavily traumatized and with a fear of the dark. Subverted, however, by the fact that it failed to rid him of the kleptomania that landed him in prison to begin with.
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Averted, as the novel's prominent Jewish character, Weldon Spurgeon, is Sephardic.
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Middle Child Syndrome
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Middle Child Syndrome: Oliver's got a bad case of this.
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Cute Clumsy Girl
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Cute Clumsy Girl: Cora.
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Never Got to Say Goodbye
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Never Got to Say Goodbye: This causes Oliver no small amount of grief regarding the death of his mother. It hits particularly hard because he refused to meet with her when she tried to visit him in prison shortly before her death.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: By the time the novel begins, the Winslow siblings' parents, Morgana and Caspar, are already deceased and appear only in flashback. Lucy, the youngest Winslow sibling, also died in infancy, and Oliver reflects on her early loss regularly throughout the story.
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Overly Long Name
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Overly Long Name: Oliver's half-brother, Lucius Marcus Julius Augustus Octavius Remus Marius Swanborough, qualifies for this.
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Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods
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Unknowingly Possessing Stolen Goods: When Oliver returns home from Lord Harrington's party, proud of himself for not taking anything, he discovers that Harrington's missing watch has been planted in his pocket.
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Grave-Marking Scene
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Grave-Marking Scene: Several of these are peppered throughout the novel.
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Taking the Bullet
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Taking the Bullet: In the climax, Evelyn leaps in front of a shot aimed at Kittie, which thankfully only hits her in the shoulder.
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: The initial reason that Leslie Barry, the villain of the novel, decides to target Oliver is that Oliver stole and then damaged a small decorative glass horse that was an heirloom from his deceased mother.
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First Love
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First Love: Oliver and Kittie serve as this for one another. Oliver has never been in a relationship before, while all of Kittie's former suitors were rather mediocre men.
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Sexy Discretion Shot
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Sexy Discretion Shot: There are a handful of love scenes between Oliver and Kittie in the novel, but none of them are particularly detailed and most of the act itself is glossed over.
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Black Sheep
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Black Sheep: Oliver, as suggested by the title.
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The Butler Did It
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The Butler Did It: Played 100% straight, as the villain of the novel and the one who planted a stolen watch on Oliver is Lord Harrington's butler, Leslie Barry.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: Oliver and Kittie's trip to the Crystal Palace in London starts out as a cute and informative date, before Oliver's kleptomania causes an incident that utterly spoils the mood and nearly breaks them up.
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Like a Son to Me
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Like a Son to Me: This is how Spurgeon views Oliver.
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Blue Blood
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Blue Blood: Both the Harringtons and Lucius are aristocrats.
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Forgotten Fallen Friend
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Forgotten Fallen Friend: Lucy, their younger sister who died in infancy, serves as this for Evelyn and Winston. Their failure to remember her birthday greatly upsets Oliver.
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Five-Finger Discount
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Five-Finger Discount: Oliver's typical method of stealing goods is simply plucking it from people's pockets.
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Uptown Girl
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Uptown Girl: This describes the relationship between Cora and Hannah. It also arguably applies to Oliver and Kittie, since Oliver comes from a middle-class merchant family while Kittie's family raised her in relative squalor.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The narration mentions that Oliver has left a copy of The String of Pearls (better known these days as Sweeney Todd'' on the magazine table in the barbershop.
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It is ambiguous whether Oliver was hallucinating or whether he really saw Lucy's ghost.
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Disappointing Older Sibling
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Disappointing Older Sibling: This is how the Winslow family's patriarch, Caspar, viewed Oliver in relation to Winston.
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Character Catchphrase
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Character Catchphrase: "A bit" serves as this for Lord Harrington. This is lampshaded by his daughter, Hannah, who points out her father's tendency to slip the words into his speech to Oliver, and then immediately lampshaded again when Hannah does it herself shortly afterwards, seemingly unintentionally.
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The Help Helping Themselves
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The Help Helping Themselves: Leslie Barry, Lord Harrington's butler, turns out to be responsible for the items going missing in his home.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: As this is a partially a mystery novel, there are a number of individuals who serve as red herrings. Namely, anyone who had the opportunity to plant the stolen watch on Oliver during the ball, such as Dunham, Cora, Hannah and Lucius.
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Affectionate Nickname: Oliver uses "Miss Kittie" for Kittie.
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Dead Person Conversation
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Dead Person Conversation: Played with, as Lucy's ghost visits Oliver in prison, but doesn't really speak.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: There are numerous examples in the novel: Lord Harrington is compared to a dog, and his butler Leslie Barry is compared to a Badger. Most notable, the Wilson family consists of three women named Kittie, Bunny and Birdie although it's subverted by the deceased father of the family, John.
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been: Averted, as Oliver had an incredibly close relationship with his infant sister, Lucy, before she passed away. Later invoked by the narration when Oliver either hallucinates or is visited by Lucy's teenage ghost during his stay in Flitwith Prison.
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Britain Is Only London
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Britain Is Only London: Averted. The novel isn't set in London, but in a town called Pilfershire, based loosely on Portsmouth.
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Period Piece
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Period Piece: The book is naturally one of these, as a novel set in Victorian England.
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Crash-Into Hello
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Crash-Into Hello: Although she isn't his love interest, this is how Cora and Oliver meet for the first and only time in the novel.
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Dances and Balls
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Dances and Balls: A dance held by Lord Harrington serves as the backdrop for a number of early chapters.
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Stern Old Judge
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Stern Old Judge: The judge who sentenced Oliver to his time in jail is depicted as one of these.
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Platonic Life-Partners
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Platonic Life-Partners: Harrington and Spurgeon are a pair of these. [[spoiler: Zigzagged when they end up becoming romantically involved near the end of the novel.
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: Oliver's time in prison counts as this. Kittie also has a fairly troubled past, having grown up poor, losing her father to illness because her family couldn't afford medicine, and having been abused by a former employer which left her with burn scars on her arms.
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Doting Parent
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Doting Parent: Birdie, Kittie's mother, is one of these. She decides to treat Oliver, her daughter's new boyfriend, as if he were her own son more-or-less the first day they meet.
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