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In this 1930 gem, young Alistair inherits £100, bids farewell to suburbia and the constant clatter of lawnmowers, and escapes to London

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Casey Peabody is waiting for her life to begin aged 31. An aspiring writer whose decisions have led her down roads that looked glamorous, she finds herself back where she started, in Boston.

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At 22, Ava is clear about one thing: ‘I knew I’d do anything for money . . . the richer I got, the harder it would be for anyone to force me to do anything.’

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MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 | Updated: 22:07 BST, 20 May 2021 THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB   by Richard Osman (Penguin £8.99, 400 pp) Coopers Chase is a genteel retirement home with an excellent restaurant … Read more

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin And Me review: Jones’s life reads like material for a Larkin poem

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Monica Jones’s life reads like material for a Philip Larkin poem, squandered in the provinces… either way, love brought her only misery By Julia Llewellyn Smith Published: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 Monica Jones, Philip Larkin And Me John Sutherland                  … Read more

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MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 29 April 2021 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 29 April 2021 THE RATLINE by Philippe Sands (W&N £9.99, 432pp) THE RATLINE by Philippe Sands (W&N £9.99, 432pp) In Rome in 1949, Otto von Wächter, a high-ranking Nazi, lay dying. While many of Wächter’s former … Read more