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Article: BOOK REVIEW
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 25, 1994
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What a time it was. Students rioted, the Russians invaded
Czechoslovakia, Robert Kennedy was assassinated and a man landed on
the moon. Frances Partridge noted these events. Then she was back
behind the wheel of her latest beloved Mini, hurtling round the
countryside, intent on being - and finding - "good company".
Her diaries are the perfect antidote to all those heady "child
of the Sixties" memoirs, written by one of the grown- ups of that
decade. Frances Partridge was 60 in 1960, keeping time with the
century but sadly into extra time as a survivor of the Bloomsbury
set. She was a grandmother - but she had outlived her husband Ralph
and even her son Burgo.
She was living in the ...