No Longer at Ease

Novel's title

The book's title comes from the closing lines of T. S. Eliot's poem, "Journey of the Magi":

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,With an alien people clutching their gods.I should be glad of another death.


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