Hints and tips:
...Her apartment seemed to offer him an escape. He spent hours with her at night, sitting on her sofa or watching her cook, as they talked about his dreams....
...A “maximum benefit” (or “per condition”) policy will assign a fixed one-time sum per injury or illness until the sum has been spent....
...“A lot of people depend on the choices we make, whether they’re tenant farmers or beaters on a grouse moor.”...
...For every opportunity, new start or kind person who gives her a break, we know that she will either mess things up or they will turn against her....
...While less of a gamble than grooming a single heir-apparent, who could fall from grace or be poached by a competitor, contests still need managing to deliver the best candidate....
...A worthy 21st-century heir to Muriel Spark’s Jean Brodie, she is both a truth-teller to parents and a manipulator who lives vicariously through her pupils....
...When Henry II pleads “Give me a little peace”, her Eleanor replies: “A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace?Now there’s a thought.” mudlark@ft.com...
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