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Sat 02 Feb 2010The other side of Paradise
SHORT STORIES: CATHY DILLONreviews The Unspoken Truth: A Quartet of Bloomsbury StoriesBy Angelica Garnett Chatto Windus, 304pp, £15
IT’S A nice paradox that fiction can sometimes bring us closer to the truth than fact. In these four autobiographical stories there is an insistent, if quiet, chime of memory and lived experience. Not that Angelica Garnett is afraid of fact: her revealing memoir, Deceived With Kindness(1985) put a slight damper on the upsurge of enthusiasm for the Bloomsbury set that had got going in earnest with her half-brother Quentin Bell’s fascinating, two-part biography of their aunt, Virginia Woolf, published in 1974 – and was set to grow .
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