I’m staying in suburban Shangri-La – but I yearn for the Hove-l
Even an enormous garden and a playful pussycat can’t stop me missing my home by the sea.
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Nicholas Lezard
Nicholas Lezard writes the Down and Out column for the New Statesman.
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