“Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”

—  Clive James

On Barbara Cartland
'Wedding of the century'
Essays and reviews, Glued to the Box (1983)

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Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an… 1939–2019

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