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| | INVISIBLE WOMAN - Claire Tomalin - Penguin Books |
 | | The 'invisible woman' of Claire Tomalin's book is the woman who, for the last thirteen years of Charles Dickens's life, was his secret obsession and intimate companion. |
 | | Although she reappeared, she was always liable to become invisible again, sometimes by her own choice, sometimes at the insistence of those who, for one reason or another, preferred to keep her out of sight. |
 | | The Invisible Woman is in part a detective story, involving lost and found diaries and inked-out letters, playbills, census returns and bank accounts, railway networks, newspaper reports, disappearing babies, oblique literary references and letters of instruction still lying in solicitor's offices - many of the ingredients, in fact, of a Dickens novel. |
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