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Books

What lack of splendour! Philip Hensher THE SELECTED LEI'lERS OF MARIANNE MOORE edited by Bonnie Costello, Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller Faber, £30, pp. 624 B ook......

The Importance Of Being Parsley

Byron Rogers OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN by Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 279 B ehind this book is a Good Idea. Noth- ing wrong with that: other novels have been......