The Spectator, August 6th, 2005
Marriage à la mode TAKE A GIRL LIKE ME by Diana Melly Chatto, £14.99, pp. 280, ISBN 0701179066 * £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
It is surely rare to find a book that describes a marriage with such breathtaking intimacy as Diana Melly does in her autobiography, Take a Girl Like Me. Not only are both the leading players very much alive, most of the varied cast are still vigorously kicking. Mrs Melly writes the story of her grippingly unconventional life as the wife of that monstre sucré George with an astonishing yet matter-of-fact frankness. In almost any more humdrum liaison, ...
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