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Saving Sassoon One of Robert’s great strengths was always the whole-hearted way in which he threw himself into whatever he was doing; but this meant that he was sometimes a man of extremes; and his ‘all-or-nothing’ approach to friendship is vividly highlighted by the contrast between his sudden and complete abandonment of Johnstone, and the…

The Shout According to Laura’s later fictionalized account, when Geoffrey failed to return from dinner with his aunt, she and Nancy hurried to the aunt’s flat. Here the only definite news was of Geoffrey being ‘out of England -with the right woman [in other words, his wife]’.38 It seemed most likely that Geoffrey and Norah…

Wife to Mr. Milton The domestic pressures on Robert Graves, already eased to some extent by Sam’s departure from Galmpton, were further reduced for five or six weeksI34 when in August 1941 he and Beryl and William were joined at The Vale House by a housekeeper. This, curiously enough, was ‘Jenny’s first nurse, Margaret Russell’,I35 the woman…