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''Deliciously gossipy and amusingly trenchant'' Daily Mail, BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
''A delightful memoir'' Kate Saunders, The Times
''Fabulous . . . dazzling'' Tatler
''Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical'' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Country Life
This short volume has turned out to be merely a handful of recollections of well-remembered times and stories - some probably misremembered, too - and a few people who have played a crucial part in my life. And some confessions: I have never before tried to write about my doll phobia, for instance, or about the effect synaesthesia has had over the years. I can only hope that this collection of stories from times past might give some idea of a mostly happy life that has gone, and is going, much too fast.
At the age of five Angela Huth decided she would become a writer. Hers was an idiosyncratic childhood. Her parents were known to be a highly glamorous