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Other People's Babies

Minette Marrin The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (Hodder and Stoughton £3.95) When a writer has the originality to annex the obvious, his book is......

Bookend

Bookbuyer The Descent of Women by Elaine Morgan, which is in itself a fairly questionable history, already has one. Ernest Hecht got hold of the book here and sold it to Sol......