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Clinical But Compassionate

Anne Chisholm ME AND THE FAT MAN by Julie Myerson Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 217 I n an English provincial town modelled on Bath a composed 27-year-old called Amy works as a......

The Perspective Of The Losers

Paul Bew CRISIS AND DECLINE by R. B. McDowell The Lilliput Press, Dublin, £16.99, pp. 227 R B. McDowell, who was born in Belfast in 1913, is the last survivor of a remarkable......