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Secrets That Remain Unyielded

Jane Gardam THE WRECK OF THE ABERGAVENNY by Alethea Hayter Macmillan. £14.99, pp. 240. ISBN 0333989171 E ver since 1965 Alethea Hayter has been placing a very sharp......

A New Lease Of Life

Teresa Waugh THE SEVEN SISTERS by Margaret Drabble Viking, £16.99, pp. 307, ISBN 0670913359 T he heroine of Margaret Drabble's new novel is on first sight pretty depressing, and......