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Our Betty

by Liz Smith · 2006

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Liz Smith is one of Britain's much loved character actresses. This is her life story - from her cosseted yet lonely childhood with her beloved grandparents, through the war, marriage and children, divorce and poverty, long years working in dead-end jobs to her big break at the age of fifty.

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adult
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medium · 227 pages

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