The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 3
NLA, $59.95 hb, 712 pp
Diaries
The brilliant fabricator
by Ian Britain •
With the greatest novels, you can plunge into them anywhere and still savour their greatness; it is recognisable on every page. You won’t need to have read the two earlier volumes of these edited diaries to recognise that same quality throughout the third – and I mean novelistic greatness, of which all the great diaries (from Samuel Pepys’s to James Lees-Milne’s) partake in important ways.
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