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Lead book review

It was pretty good for me: Joan Bakewell on the Sixties

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

For me this book evokes a Gigi duet moment: ‘You wore a gown of gold.’ ‘I was all in blue.’ ‘Am I getting old?’ ‘Oh, no, not you.’ Memory plays us false, and it takes the skill of a sympathetic historian such as Virginia Nicholson to sift the evidence, written and oral, and unfold a story that is both plausible and sound.

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