Around 1960, I went to work with the literary staff of The Spectator, where I was followed, in a later world, by the poet and diarist Hugo Williams. At this early stage it was possible to feel close to the family that could be inferred from his poems: a mother and a film-star father injured in the war, two brothers, a sister.
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Available from the Spectator Bookshop, £11.69. Tel: 08430 600033. Karl Miller was literary editor in 1958, and was later literary editor of the New Statesman.
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