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Bookends

Bookends: Deftly orchestrated chaos

21 July 2012

4:00 PM

21 July 2012

4:00 PM

The headings set the scene: ‘Last Tango in Balham, in which I meet Marlon Brando on the dance floor of Surbiton Assembly Rooms but thankfully do not have to do anything with packet of country life.’

The essential premise in Melissa Kite’s breezy new collection Real Life: One Woman’s Guide to Love, Men and Other Disasters (Constable, £7.99)

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