The Perfect Stranger

A Memoir of Love and Survival

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First published in 1966 this classic memoir by the poet, actor and broadcaster PJ Kavanagh looks back on his schooldays, followed by jobs as a barman and Butlin’s Redcoat, a bohemian spell in Paris, and National Service in Korea, where he was shot. Moving and funny, it tells how his love for his first wife, Sally Lehmann, who died from polio, cured him of his youthful cynicism and disaffection.

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