May Week was in June by Clive James

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Bren Booth-Jones | Folio & TomeApr 2026

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A lot of adventure and misadventure and then the third volume is he has received a scholarship to Cambridge and continues the hullabaloo and carousing while at the same time building the somewhat rickety foundations of his brilliant career. The first installment of these three is one of my favorite memoirs ever written.

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