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A Bland And Baleful Stoic

Helen Osborne NATIONAL SERVICE: A DIARY OF A DECADE by Richard Eyre Bloomsbury, £18.99, pp. 320, ISBN 000747565899 W ‘ 07 up this morning feeling fine. Notices for Lorca's......

Always Her Own Woman

Digby Durrant THE GRANDMOTHERS by Doris Lessing Flamingo, £15.99, pp. 311, ISBN 0007152795 he Grandmothers consists of four novellas, very different from The Golden Notebook,......