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Mum's The Buzz Word

Caroline Moorehead THE GREAT UMBILICAL: MOTHER, DAUGHTER, MOTHER, THE UNBREAKABLE BOND by Rachel Billington Hutchinson, £17.99, pp. 238 M others — those with daughters, that is......

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......