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A Good Read: Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter

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The Power of Memoirs

Lorna's mother is totally ill-fitted to be a housewife, she loaths cooking. But in 1950s you're very conscious of things like the man's job for women. And there's a very good picture of that era, I think. Every wife in the country is being rolled back into the home - but it's not just that wives are getting whiter than white. Lorna does have intense anxiety and seems basically anorexic. She has this dry, understated sense of humour with immaculate timing. The cleverness is there in this kind of conversational style which is then the conversational style of the community who many of them couldn

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