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Enjoying Her Trip

Roger Lewis HIGH SPIRITS by Joan Sims Transworld, £16.99, pp. 212 T he Carry On films saved my life. A few years ago, after I got divorced, my para- mour ran away to Maidstone......

Waking Up With A Hangover

Sara Maitland PROMISE OF A DREAM: A MEMOIR OF THE SIXTIES by Sheila Rowbotham Allen Lane/Penguin, £18.99, pp. 320 I t is now fashionable and therefore (since we are all fashion......

A Selection Of Recent Paperbacks

Fiction: The Lives of Animals by J.M Coetzee, Pro- file, £4.99 0 is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton, Pan, £5.99 The Memory Box by Margaret Forster, Penguin, £6.99 Music and Silence by......