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...The ninth diarist is, in fact, two people, Bertha and Matthew Walton, a self-consciously cultured Durham couple who keep the diary as a joint enterprise in their “democratic and companionate marriage”....
...(Robert Matthews, Oneworld, £7.99); Why is Yawning Contagious? (Portrait, £7.99); and Do Elephants Ever Forget?...
...The only stress is on his long-suffering housekeeper Bertha, who has to cook Italian cuisine for Gabriella, American for Gloria and frankfurters and sauerkraut for Gretchen....
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