"I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time."

Source : Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

Jill Tweedie

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