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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Happens to us all, Maureen.

Summer reading recommendations from a newspaper. (In the pic, the second para below is highlighted.)

Maureen Lipman, actress

I will be taking to Malta Shuggie Bain because my daughter and Rula Lenska told me it was dazzling and I believe them where I might not have believed the reviews.

Also Shouting in the Evenings by James Hayes, a memoir by the actor who has been in most of the National Theatre's plays over the past 50 years. I saw it on Gyles Brandreth's shelf and said, "I'd love to read that." When I got home I looked at the cover and it said, "A helluva good read - Maureen Lipman," leading me to believe I have read it but just forgotten. So I will jolly well read it again.

Third book would be Kiss Myself Goodbye by Ferdinand Mount. I am halfway through this startling memoir of the many lives of his Aunt Munca. It is "a voyage into a vanished moral world" and she is one of life's unforgettable characters.

Wayne Connolly @wayneconnolly.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Alternatively she blurbed it but hadn’t read it. That happens to us all too.

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