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A Dangerous Age

He lifts up her face and she lets him, she lets him smooth it like a finely rumpled sheet, stroking out from the eyes, their dusty corners, down the cheek, easing ten years away......

One May Smile And Smile And Be A Victim

John Cornwell MURDER IN THE HEART by Alexandra Artley Hamish Hamilton, f15.99, pp. 268 T here will be scenes, as they say, that may disturb our readers. In November 1988 two......

Books

An American classic Anita Brookner WRITING DANGEROUSLY: MARY MCCARTHY AND HER WORLD by Carol Brightman Lime Tree, £20, pp. 714 N o one, but no one, had a more dis- graced and......