How a teacher missed my old friend’s promise | Brief letters
Juliet Gardiner | England’s World Cup hope | DIY spirits | SlangIt was good to read David Kynaston’s appreciation of Juliet Gardiner’s writing, so widely admired (Juliet Gardiner obituary, 14 July). The school we both attended, leading to a lifelong friendship, failed to recognise her talent. On the bus together one morning, Juliet let me read her latest piece of homework: 11 strikingly imaginative pages about the stone effigies of knights in St Peter’s church, Berkhamsted. At the end I…
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