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OUT NOW FLORA AND GRACE by Maureen Lee (Orion, £9.99; offer price, £9.49)It’s spring 1944 in Switzerland and teenage Flora, becalmed in the Alps by war, suddenly finds...
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Daily tip from the lady archive
"It is not always she who appears most kindly in her interest who is the safe sharer of sacred (maybe sorrowful) secrets! Charming manners do not always connote sincerity of heart!”
The Lady. In Confidence. 4th April, 1918















