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The Professor And The Flower

Jane Gardam THE BLUE FLOWER by Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, £14.99, pp. 225 'Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history' is the epigraph by Fritz von Hardenberg of this......

The Stranger After The Funeral

Isabel Colegate HIDDEN LIVES: A FAMILY MEMOIR by Margaret Forster Viking, £16, pp. 308 G uth is a common legacy of parents. We remember their last sad years and for- get the......