
How Noël Coward became the archetypal English success
A new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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A new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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ByBlake Morrison’s account of sibling tragedy passes its moral questions on to the reader.
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ByThe memoir appears to have beaten growing “Harry fatigue”.
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