Evening Standard - London, February 5th, 2007
A Beatle for a brother The Invisible Woman by Lucy Cavendish (Michael Joseph, Pounds 12.99) WHEN Samantha Smythe was a loving but inexperienced new mother struggling with difficult baby Edward, her feckless guitarist husband John upped and left. Three lonely years later, Fate threw a Lovely Man into her path, another John, who "found me and Edward and scooped us up and balanced us all back out again". Two more baby boys swiftly appeared, and all led a life of reasonably contented domestic squalor in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Difficult Edward settled down, happy to call the new John "D...
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