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became extremely close to her landlady, Tiny Lazzari
, who despite her name was Irish, and who not only lodged her but delighted in feeding her and acting as a gatekeeper to keep out...
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Muriel Spark
This novel is set in the years 1954-5, with an epilogue which brings the characters thirty years onwards. The narrator, Nancy Hawkins, a young war widow, lives in a boarding-house in a downmarket area of...