Little Boy Lost (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Woman and Home The young wife who had

The young wife who had spent her girlhood as a conscript or a directed worker liked nothing better than the kind of routine which her mother had found so frustrating and imprisoning

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Little Boy Lost (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Woman and Home The young wife who hadAFTERWORD BY ANNE SEBBA 232pp ISBN 9781906462055 'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece,' wrote Nicholas Lezard in the Guardian. 'As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merits although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expertly puts you through the wringer, this is the one. 'Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted