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Laurie Graham is not the Canadian Olympic downhill skier, nor is she the Purdue University Director of Women’s Studies. She is the other Laurie Graham: novelist, journalist and scriptwriter.

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A Damn Good Chap

Laurie Graham on Hilary Hook, Home from the Hill

Gone are the days when children could be out of the house from breakfast till suppertime, messing about in boats or dangling over cliffs searching for birds’ eggs, and no one would give them a second thought. Hilary Hook, born in 1917, grew up in Devon in one such benignly neglectful family. In his late sixties he became, to his surprise, a household name, following the screening of Molly Dineen’s 1984 documentary Home from the Hill.

Death and the Duchess

Laurie Graham on Hugo Vickers, Behind Closed Doors

I’m not usually tempted by biographies of royals, living or not long dead. They tend to be written in deferential tones and I prefer something neutral or, better yet, something with teeth. However, twenty years ago, when I was preparing to write my novel Gone with the Windsors, I read a huge number of books about the Duke and Duchess. Panegyrics, hatchet jobs, you name it. Hugo Vickers’s Behind Closed Doors had yet to be published. When it came out in 2011, I felt compelled to read it. Vickers had no axe to grind. He hadn’t known the Windsors. Could he deliver the sharp-eyed skinny?

The Fanny Factor

Laurie Graham on Fanny Cradock, Coping with Christmas

It was some time in the mid-Sixties when things began to change in my mother’s kitchen. First we got a fridge. Farewell mesh-doored meat safe, farewell flecks of curdled milk floating in your tea. The second thing that happened was Fanny Cradock. This was a brief love affair – my mum later transferred her culinary trust and affection to Delia Smith – but while it lasted its impact was astonishing. Expenditure on piping bags, time spent tracking down a butter curler and a grapefruit knife, foods coloured contrary to the laws of Nature: the responsibility for this and much more could be laid at Fanny’s door.

One Man and His Pigs

Laurie Graham on Lord Emsworth’s Annotated Whiffle

Many of you will already be acquainted with Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth. You will know that in a life buffeted by bossy and opinionated women the Earl’s greatest consolation is his prizewinning Berkshire sow, the Empress of Blandings. P. G. Wodehouse’s Lord Emsworth is a connoisseur of pigs and his favourite book, possibly the only one he ever reads, is The Care of the Pig by Augustus Whiffle.

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