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A novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composerA novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composer

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Mark Coles on Tom Sharpe, Nigel Hepper, Anne Valery, Henri Dutilleux, Molly Clutton-Brock.

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