It's such a lovely book, and an exemplar of how to do memoir. And she used and transmuted that same Egyptian world in her Booker novel Moon Tiger, which is a terrific book. (Same territory, vastly different style, as Olivia Manning's Levant Trilogy). I'd no idea there was a sequel, though, so many thanks for the heads-up, and it's off to the library for me...
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