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Blake Morrison & Cathy Rentzenbrink: Two Sisters

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Why Am I Drawn to Sad Stories?

Jill's sister failed the 11 plus and her parents didn't like secondary modern. They thought they could afford to send it to boarding school. So off she went to the late district where she was very unhappy, indeed. And eventually wrote a letter of such unhappiness that my dad just walked out the morning surgery and took her out of school midway through the school year.

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