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Women Talking To Women

Anita Brookner UNLESS by Carol Shields Fourth Estate, £16.99, pp. 213, ISBN 0007137702 I t is hard to describe what makes this resolutely old-fashioned novel so beguiling. Even......

On A Wing And A Prayer

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