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One Great Moment, One Great Line

Norman Stone LIFE SENTENCE by Hartley Shawcross Constable, £20, pp. 346 N ostalgia for the Fifties is in order. You could rent a flat in Hampstead for £3 per week, the Bayswater......

Twisting The Knife Away

Penelope Lively YESTERDAY IN THE BACK LANE by Bernice Rubens Little, Brown, £15.99, pp 247 A s an admirer of resounding opening sentences I warmed at once to this: 'My name is......