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The Darling Leader

Alastair Forbes T hese two books, by very different characters both tirelessly engaged in a profitable paperchase search for the authors of their being, have more in com- mon......

A Mother's Love

Peter Quennell Madame de Sevigne: Selected Letters Translated and introduced by Leonard Tancock (Penguin £2.95) M arie de Rabutin Chantal, born in 1626, married in 1644 to a......