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As historian Claudia Hampton lies in hospital, she reflects on a life shaped by passion, family and the Second World War. Penelope Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel explores memory, love and the ways a personal life becomes intertwined with history.
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one life, several versions. memory refuses to behave.
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