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Following In The Steps Of The Master

Anita Brookner SHARDS OF MEMORY by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala John Murray, £15.99, pp. 272 R eaders of this beautiful novel must first make an effort to disentangle the relationships......

The Heart Less Bounding At Emotion New

Kate Hubbard THE TEMPORARY by Rachel Cusk Macmillan, 0.99, pp. 245 T follow a highly acclaimed first novel — Saving Agnes — is an unenviable and notoriously difficult task. But......