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BIOGRAPHY:Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English FamilyBy Jeremy Lewis Jonathan Cape, 580pp. £25
IN 1910, Edward Greene, a businessman who had made a large fortune in the Brazilian coffee trade, returned with his young family to England to buy “the Hall”, a substantial house set in 25 acres of parkland on the edge of Berkhamsted, a small Hertfordshire town just 40 minutes from London’s Euston Station.
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