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This follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘The Pleasing Hour’ is a keen and forthright study of the inner workings of a family circle, which means it’s excruciating to read – a strange compliment to bestow, but an apt one
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Studiously neither pro-war nor anti-war, this ‘anti-sending-me-to-war-book’ rather too appropriately evidences reluctance to see actual combat, expending nearly two-thirds of its length establishing Ayers’ coward credentials before setting off on the road to Baghdad.

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