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...Jim O’Connor, who is in his seventies, and lives alone in Thorpe Bay, Essex, spent 19 weeks alone in his flat, shielding. “At first it wasn’t too bad, but after a while you start to lose the will.”...
...It’s the sort of detail Frances Thorpe, the oh-so-slippery narrator of Harriet Lane’s popular 2012 novel might notice....
...The appointees include public relations chief Jake Siewert, a former aide to Tim Geithner when he was Treasury secretary, Owen West, a commodities trader who served as a US Marine, and British IT expert Joanne...
...Between Each Breath By Adam Thorpe Jonathan Cape £16.99, 432 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Thorpe’s biting seventh novel is a bleak satire of Blair’s smug, middle-class Britain, set in contrast to...
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