An Almost English Life by Miriam Gross – review

Miriam Gross's memoir has plenty of colour but at times feels curiously detachedMiriam Gross is a respected journalist who spent much of her career working on newspaper books desks – first on this paper, as Terence Kilmartin's long-serving deputy, and later at the Sunday Telegraph, where she was literary editor between 1991 and 2005. Now in her 70s, Gross has crossed from one side of the literary world to the other, as it were, publishing a slim memoir focusing largely on her life in journa...

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