Novelist Evie Wyld: ‘My father died at 6am. By 7am we were all trashed’
The prize-winning author on the ‘twee’ ways we talk about death – and why it feels ‘uncomfortable to be English pretty much anywhere’
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The prize-winning author on the ‘twee’ ways we talk about death – and why it feels ‘uncomfortable to be English pretty much anywhere’
How the story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams – immortalised in the 1981 film – is rekindling Britain’s Olympic spirit
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