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XANDRA BINGLEY has had such an eventful life that she was too busy to write about it. But now the ex-spy's childhood memoir has won her thousands of fans, says NIGEL JONES
Xandra Bingley takes a long time to marinate a book. More than half a century, in fact. Though she has been in publishing - apart from a short spell as a spook at MI5 - for all her working life, she had reached retirement age before she contemplated getting between hard covers herself.See the full content of this document
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War of Words
'All my life I was learning how to write,' she says. 'I just didn't know how to do it.' When the long learning curve was complete, the result was certainly worth the wait: Bertie, May And Mrs Fish, her enchanting memoir of a wartime country childhood in the Cotswolds, h...
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