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A Very Even Tenor

Kate Grimand HALFWAY TO HEAVEN: CONCLUDING MEMOIRS OF A LITERARY LIFE by Rupert Hart-Davis Sutton, .£18.99, pp. 163 D iaries should be prosaic; they ar e , all the better for......

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