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The Reluctant Spinster

Kay Dick A Very Private Eye: the Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym Edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (Macmillan £12.95) A heart she was a Betjeman girl (`The......

The Sins Of The Mothers

Sarah Bradford Deceived with Kindness: a Bloomsbury Childhood Angelica Garnett (Chatto & Windus £9.95) 'Clhildren begin by loving their parents; %..../after a time they judge......