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Author Archives → Jess Brown

The Lives of Strangers

posted in Diaries on March 24, 2018 by Jess Brown

The night before her grandfather’s funeral, Jess Brown began reading his memoirs. She was met with a portrait of Oxford some 50 years before her time, told with a gentle northern nostalgia.

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The 29 Steps: A Diary by Jess Brown

posted in Diaries on June 16, 2017 by Jess Brown

A Mother’s Poetic Touch

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