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Chickens and Eggs
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‘Twenty-one days it takes to hatch eggs, twenty-one nights, and there sits the great fierce hen who had accepted me as protector and jailer for that time.’
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The Death of a Chair
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‘To attack the chair I equipped myself with a saw, sharp scissors and a claw hammer.’
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The Roads of London
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‘You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.’
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Events in the Skies
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‘He told me that when he remembered his childhood that aeroplane was in the sky.’
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Autobiography (Part Two): My Mother’s Life
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'I put an end to the awfulness of being at home with her by going off to Salisbury and becoming what is now known as an au pair.'
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Impertinent Daughters
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'She loved examinations, came first in class, adored mathematics, and was expected for a time to become a professional pianist'.
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Under Another Name
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'No, Jane Somers is not my mother, but thoughts of women like my mother fed Jane Somers.'
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Jane Somers’s Diaries
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‘I had never thought that before, never felt life in that way, as I did then; washing Maudie Fowler, a fierce angry old woman.’
