Nicky Haslam

Girl power | 2 June 2016

Brigid Keenan and Lyndall Hobbs were both funny and famous in Swinging London — and their delightful memoirs of the Sixties reflect this

issue 04 June 2016

  • Full Marks for Trying: An Unlikely Journey from the Raj to the Rag Trade

    Brigid Keenan

    Bloomsbury, pp. 208

  • A Girl from Oz

    Lyndall Hobbs

    Hardie Grant Books, pp. 336

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