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The Age Of Innocence

Anita Brookner LAND GIRLS by Angela Huth Sinclair-Stevenson, f14.99, pp. 308 O ne settles down with a smile of plea- surable anticipation as the scene is set: an elderly woman......

Riddled With Craziness

Peter Levi WINTER POLLEN by Ted Hughes Faber, f17.50, pp. 465 T here are nearly all the essential pieces of an autobiography of this most surprising and entertaining of poets......