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Gorman, Michael

Michael Gorman is a retired librarian. Though English, he has lived the last half of his life in the United States. He is the author of the memoir Broken Pieces (2011).

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The Flight of an Odd Duck

Michael Gorman on Julian Symons, Notes from Another Country

I have been reading a number of books on everyday life in Britain in the Second World War recently and have been on the lookout for more titles to read. My friend Jack Walsdorf, bookseller, book collector, librarian and author of, among other things, a bibliography of Julian Symons, told me of the latter’s Notes from Another Country (1972). Having obtained a copy from a second-hand bookseller in Galway, I read this slim volume in a couple of hours and with enormous enjoyment.

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