Article: BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT By Elizabeth Smart

BOOK OF A LIFETIME

In choosing a book that has shaped and changed my life, I have dithered between classics, none of them contemporary and all of them novels. For me the significant book will always be a novel, although I do have a soft spot for The SAS Survival Guide, and particularly the section on camp craft.

But people and their story, whether epic as in War and Peace or up close like Mrs Dalloway, are what grabs me. I have been moved, exhilarated and devastated by Crime and Punishment, American Pastoral, Anna Karenina, Persuasion and Madame Bovary. The characters and their stories have stayed to walk through life with me.

There can never be one book, but Elizabeth Smart's novel By Grand ...

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