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October’s BOOK CLUB
Aug 26, 2021
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HISTORY REIMAGINED
Tenderness by Alison Macleod (£18.99, HB, Bloomsbury)
n 1960, DH Lawrence’s was tried for obscenity at the Old Bailey. Alison Macleod’s account shows us what was at stake. Had the case been proven, the defendant – Penguin Books director Sir Allen Lane – would have faced a three-year sentence. At the heart of the book stands Lawrence, struggling with ill health as he strove
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