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Mar 2023
49m 57s

Private Faces In Public Places

THE TLS
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This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on. 


‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’ edited by Nicholas Seager

‘The Rachel Papers’ by Martin Amis


Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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