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Tigers Wedding

by Isla Blair · 2011

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Isla Blair writes lyrically of her beloved India, stoically in term times in Spartan Britain boarding schools and with great humour and vivacity of the time after school when she became one of the youngest students ar RADA, training alongside Anthony Hopkins and others and throwing herself fully into life in London in the 1960s.

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childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
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boarding schoolboarding schoolMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 296 pages

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