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    Lord of misrule

    Jan 11, 2023 2 minutes

    By Anne Glenconner

    Hodder & Stoughton £22

    As she enters her tenth decade, her spirits unflagging, her memory undimmed, and her pat rician beauty unchanged, Anne Glenconner has clearly discovered the fountain of truth.

    Four years after publishing her acclaimed autobiography, , and with a couple of novels in between, she has returned to her first

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