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Hawtree, Christopher

Christopher Hawtree has edited Graham Greene’s letters to the press and other writings (Yours Etc) and, for the World’s Classics, John Meade Falkner’s novel The Nebuly Coat. At present he is working on a book about language: The Fear of Saffron.

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20050901165040 Christopher Hawtree on P.Y. Betts, Slightly Foxed Issue 7

In Search of P. Y. Betts

Christopher Hawtree on P. Y. Betts, People Who Say Goodbye

At a desk beneath the dome of the British Museum Reading Room, as sombre Ph.D. types on either side of me pored over earnest looking volumes, I had to restrain myself from yelling for joy at item NN 20963: the catalogue number for French Polish by P. Y. Betts. It was her only book, a novel published by Gollancz in 1933. It looked as if nobody had opened it for some while – perhaps for more than fifty years.

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