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Drawn from life
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Our Ethel is fiction loosely based upon harsh reality, writes subscriber Phil Batman.
Ethel’s had a very long tortuous gestation. The novel began its route to publication, I suppose, with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth just a few weeks after I was born!