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"I LOVE you, Henrietta," I said. "What would you like for pudding and why does everyone else love you too?"

Henrietta Moraes doesn't understand why she has always been popular but she is clear about the sweets of the world. "I want two puddings." So first she had a baked toffee pie and then a big dish of ice-cream spiced with ginger. She gave up her extravagant reliance on drink and drugs five years ago, only to find that her cleansed-out body was diabetic. "That wasn't fair." So once a week she has a tiny binge on sugary things, evidence of a personality that has never liked half-measures.

Life has perhaps not been fair to Henrietta but she has also had luck. She could have died in the ...

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