Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New Bombs are exploding

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Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives [2014] paperback Condition:New Bombs are exploding'As a child, I'm to be my mother's "sister" because she wants one so. My part is to be there if she's ill. At four years old, it's a privilege to have this responsibility instead of trotting off to nursery school like other children.' So begins the renowned and award wining biographer's book about her own life particularly in relationship to her mother an extraordinary and intensely realised tale of loyalty and division; breakdown and recovery;