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    Free Love

    Jan 12, 2022 2 minutes
    Tessa Hadley

    Jonathan Cape £16.99

    Free Love opens with a 40-year-old woman, Phyllis Fischer, sitting at her dressing table by an open window. She’s relishing the sounds and smells of a wealthy London suburb on a late summer evening:

    ‘The steady relieving splash of a hose in a herbaceous border, confiding clack of shears, distant thwack of balls from the tennis club, broken sharp cries of children playing, fragrance

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