Lucy Mangan

Miss Marple to the rescue

To escape her deeply dysfunctional family, the young Sally Bayley retreated into library books and preserved her sanity

issue 23 June 2018

  • Girl with Dove: A Life Built by Books

    Sally Bayley

    William Collins, pp. 270

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