Judith Flanders

Beer and skittles and Lucian Freud and Quentin Crisp – a Hampstead misery memoir

A review of ‘Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood’, by Marjorie Ann Watts. It’s at its best when channelling the voice and mind of a child

A group of boys riding in an army tank on the roundabout at the Hampstead Heath Fairground in 1944. (Photo by Harry Shepherd/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 
issue 20 September 2014
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  • Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

    Marjorie Ann Watts

    Quartet, pp. 192

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