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A Jealous Addiction

Jerome de Groot T HE A CT OF L OVE by Howard Jacobson Cape, £17.99, pp.306 ISBN 9780224086097 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 F rom ‘Readers’ Wives’ to Molly Bloom, the......

Slippery Slopes

Lucy Hughes-Hallett T HE W HITE W AR : L IFE AND D EATH ON THE I TALIAN F RONT 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson Faber, £25, pp. 454, ISBN 9780571223336 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429......