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From Bletchley Park to Take Your Pick – this baroness’s memoir is a blast

A review of Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir, by Jean Trumpington, who moved through life with the sceptical wit of a highly intelligent scullerymaid

Baroness Trumpington and Lord Harris of High Cross. Defiant pipe and cigar smokers from both houses of Parliament light up to mark national no-smoking day. Photo: William Conran/PA Images
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  • Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir

    Jean Trumpington

    Macmillan, pp. 236

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