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Life Begins At Fifty

Diana Hendry ON BECOMING A FAIRY GODMOTHER by Sara Maitland Maia, f7.99, pp, 236, ISBN 190455900X ]arming old women' could have been the subtitle of this collection of 15......

The Unsuitable Suitor In The Lake

Antonia Fraser THE BLANK WALL by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding Persephone, £10, pp. 231, ISBN 1903155320 W hen I told him to leave the premises, he refused. But I dealt with him. To......