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Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography

By Norman Lewis
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By Norman Lewis
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Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with his dry, infectious, laconic wit. He takes us on a journey that transforms a stammering schoolboy into a worldly-wise multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps, on the point of becoming a legendary travel writer. Covers his childhood in London with a psychic father, to his open marriage to the enigmatic Ernestina Corvajas and to his wartime experiences in the British Intelligence Corps which allowed him to travel, obser...

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BiographyLiterary BiographyBritish & Irish Literary BiographyBritish Authors - 20th Century - Literary Biography