Hints and tips:
...Christine Rice is a vivacious Bersi and Rosalind Plowright, so memorable when she was Maddalena here back in 1984, now flounces about with camp panache as the pompous Contessa di Coigny....
...Her son, Danny Kruger, a former speech writer for David Cameron, has been appointed as Boris Johnson’s political secretary....
...Rosalind Plowright makes a delightfully camp Contessa di Coigny, Adrian Clarke a vivid Mathieu, Carlo Bosi an incisive Incredibile....
...And when I wake I write; the David versus Goliath saga in my day job has given me the background narrative for a secret agent novel that I’d been struggling with earlier....
...The literary type is David Ebershoff, who, besides being a journalist and author, really is Shteyngart’s editor....
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