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A Formula That Shows Its Age

Anita Brookner BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS by Anne Tyler Chatto, £15.99, pp. 273, ISBN 070117286X A nne Tyler's protagonists are dutiful, wistful people who, after a lifetime of......

Every Inch A Queen

Penelope Hughes-Hallett BECOMING VICTORIA by Lynne Valone Yale, £18.95, pp. 256, ISBN 0300089503 L ynne Vallone writes that Queen Victoria's childhood and adolescence have been......