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Article: `Well-behaved and a nice neighbour' - the secret life of boozy Dylan Thomas; SWANSEA: Memoirs of Welsh heiress portray legendary poet in new light.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2002
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Byline: ROBIN TURNER
DYLAN Thomas had an undeserved reputation as a hard drinker and one of his most famous poems has been wrongly interpreted, a close friend has revealed.
A new book about the life of a Welsh heiress exposes writer Dylan Thomas as a nice neighbour and ``good company''. So often described as a hellraiser with scant regard for what others thought of him, the memoirs of the late Phyllis Bowen shed new light on the Swansea-born poet.
And in the book The Baker's Daughter (Merton Priory Press pounds 14.95, published October 14) a new ...