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As Large As Life And Twice As Natural

Jane Gardam ALICE A , first John Bayley's novel, only his second in 40 years as distinguished literary critic, 20 of them as Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford,......

Her Worldly Trask Is Done

Anita Brookner MOTHERS AND OTHER LOVERS by Joanna Briscoe Phoenix House, £14.99, pp. 248 M y mother was a middle-class woman who spent her days at home, that being the norm in......