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totally reclusive. That’s why
she isn’t as well known today
as, say, Gertrude Ederle, but
I’m about to put that right.’
Doloranda brings out one of
the red exercise books her
mother bought from
Woolworths, its thick pages
crammed with press reports.
‘She glued them all in, and
when she ran out of glue
because of war shortages, she
sewed them in.’ Next she
shows me posters announcing