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Family Life - Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing by Elisabeth Luard |
Elisabeth was married at just 21 to Nicholas Luard, co-founder of Private Eye. This memoir, interwoven with recipes (she's a cookery-writer), chronicles their life from early days in London to those spent in Andalusia and Provence. Then tragedy strikes. The last chapters, one in Francesca's own words, relate how the family confront and cope with the spectre of Aids. Read it in tandem with The Field of the Star to be uplifted rather than depressed.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 16 December 2002 ) |
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