The story behind an almost forgotten 1950s feminist fantasy classic
Why Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light gets better with distance.
Why Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light gets better with distance.

Written in response to a triptych by Barbara Probst, for FT Magazine’s photography special

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Astringent, unsparing and generous by turns, the Canadian writer’s memoir is as compulsively readable as her best fiction

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