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Life With Lucy

John Bowen OLEANDER, JACARANDA by Penelope Lively Viking, £14, pp. 180 P enelope Lively was born in Cairo. When she was two, the family moved to Bulaq el Dakhrur, which was then......

Reducing All That's Made

John Cornwell THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS: THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE SOUL by Francis Crick Simon & Schuster, £16.99, pp. 384 It is characteristic of ageing brain scientists......