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John le Carré: I was beaten by my father, abandoned by my mother

6 mins | May 28, 2017
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Following the passing of the spy novel author, we revisit this piece from his autobiography. Luke Harding looks into John le Carré’s autobiography, that gives a definitive account of his life as a writer and sometime spy, with more personal passages covering his father Ronnie.

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