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...No one knows the cruelty and the arbitrariness of traditional song better than Shirley Collins....
...Where would we be – we readers, playgoers, screen spectators – without the screaming matches, weeping fits and confessional unravellings of US drama, from Long Day’s Journey Into Night to East of Eden to...
...It has always been, at least in art’s soppier outreaches, an Eden before the fall....
...While a leader and feature writer on the FT, he wrote speeches for the then prime minister Anthony Eden....
...It opens brilliantly in a restaurant with the British actress Shirley Henderson on a date with her patently adoring and seemingly gentle husband. Taking her hand, he makes her a promise....
...Many of those who peopled Austerity Britain return – from the highly strung Anthony Eden, who has just left 10 Downing Street when this book ends, to the warm-hearted Judy Haines of Chingford, Essex....
...Since her 1989 debut novel, Eden Close, she has published 12 more; The Weight of Water was shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize for Fiction. Shreve is married with two children and three stepchildren....
...“God had Anthony Eden invade the Suez so I could be sent to Naples.”...
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