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Uncle Tom's Cottage

Richard Ingrams TOM DRIBERG by Francis Wheen Chatto, f18, pp.452 A t the age of 19 Tom Driberg visited Italy with his mother. At Portofino he climbed the lighthouse where he......

The Slow Death Of A House

Molly Keane WALLED GARDENS: SCENES FROM AN ANGLO-IRISH CHILDHOOD by Annabel Davis-Goff Barrie & Jenkins, £14.95, pp.272 I nherited houses and their estates be- come almost......