This week’s Shelf Lifer, Mary Quant (pictured here in 1960s), invented both the mini-skirt and hot pants. If that weren’t enough, she later claimed to have invented the duvet cover. She tells us which part of the Bible she would take into solitary confinement and which character in Little Women gets her going. Her autobiography is out tomorrow.
1) As a child what did you read under the covers?
Enid Blyton – My father disapproved as it was fashionably thought to be bad English.
2) Has a book ever made you cry and if so which one?
Many books and most of all those by Amelia Ann Stiggins.
3) You are about to be put in solitary confinement for a year and allowed to take three books. What would you choose?
The Old Testament, War and Peace and Napoleon’s
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