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PHILIPPA STOCKLEY

The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go

By Clover Stroud

Doubleday £18.99

In our Instagram world, the real-time memoir, celebrating and ‘sharing’ the smallest detail of daily life, is big business.

Over three previous memoirs, Clover Stroud’s distinctively unbuttoned revelations of her spirited, spiritual life have gained a growing audience.

She has told of her adventurous single life and sexual adventures; of the violent pain of childbirth; of the unbearable, decades-long loss

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