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...I ascribe their starry performance to the rain in late spring and the absence of spring frost....
...Susie Hopkins, author of The Century of Hats, remembers her mother “keeping one in every pocket of her coat — as lots of women did — because everyone had perms, and they couldn’t afford to get them wet in...
...Susie Boyt’s latest novel “Loved and Missed” is out now in paperback (Virago)....
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...Two hosings sufficed, but two more weeks without rain might have killed it for good....
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