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An Uninspired Foreign Correspondent

Zenga Longmore DEAREST VIRGINIA edited by Gayle Hunnicutt Kyle Cathie, £14.99, pp. 224, ISBN 1856265560 (I': £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 W hat are the essential......

Posh And Common

Charlotte Moore THE VILLAGE by Marghanita Laski Persephone, £10, pp. 302, ISBN 1903155428 T his is one of those lovely Persephone reprints with a pearly grey cover and endpapers......