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...Fight Night by Miriam Toews, Faber £14.99/Bloomsbury $24, 272 pages Susie Boyt’s latest novel is ‘Loved and Missed’ (Virago) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...For me, The Wolseley has been like that fabled land imagined by yearning Dorothy stuck in grey Kansas, “Some place where there isn’t any trouble . . . ” It feels like the end of that era now....
...Voiced by actress Vanessa Kirby, Helen tells Susie that she’s been unfaithful to her boyfriend with an older partner at another law firm....
...From psychoanalyst Susie Orbach on the need to achieve and mindful ways to deal with life’s twists and turns, to the truth about fasting. Browse FT Magazine’s State of Mind special....
...Born in 1944 in Halifax, Yorkshire, to mill workers Susie and George Crowther, he began hitchhiking around Europe in his teens....
...Very little fazes Susie, even being abducted by heavies sent by entertainment Mr Big, Harry Drake....
...It’s amazing that you can make a movie on such a lightweight device rather than being stuck in a dark editing room, and the images are really crisp and clear....
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...Each element is separate, so if you get stuck you can keep moving things. You don’t have to start again.” Child learnt young....
...I love that his face has been stuck on a jug for beer,” says Sandling. “Mudlarking is all about connection and there is nothing better than seeing someone’s face.”...
...I was reading an interview with Russia’s most famous convict, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was stuck inside a frigid Siberian jail....
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...Susie Orbach’s Fat is a Feminist Issue. I read it at university. I stopped thinking about food, and had time to think about writing instead. Which books are on your bedside table?...
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...Rachel Johnson is editor of The Lady Susie Boyt returns next week...
...They’re stuck between a rock and a handbag. What to do?...
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