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“... to their number … lays a particular obligation on the biographer to make his purpose plain.’ Rebecca Fraser justified her Life on the basis that the twenty years since Gérin’s had brought much material to light. ‘Yet another biography,’ Barker writes in The Brontës, ‘requires an apology, or at least an explanation.’ Harman doesn’t justify ...”

“... or wander towards her death, and we will always have that wrong, as Richard Quin explains in Rebecca West’s This Real Night. Quin has learned that his mercurial father has died. He does not ask how, which his sister, Rose, cannot understand. ‘I didn’t ask,’ he explains, ‘because if people tell you things it never comes out right … They never ...”

“... parliamentary seats are, from Lisa Nandy in Wigan to Angela Rayner in Ashton-under-Lyne, from Rebecca Long-Bailey in Salford to George Galloway in Rochdale, the politics of place are as central here as party politics.I met Gavin Grimshaw, six foot four, lean and sunburned in a Lonsdale boxing vest, in the simply furnished two-storey terraced house in Bury ...”