House parties

Dear Mary

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Q. Our best friends own a house in Morocco which sleeps about ten. They rent it out but go two…

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Q. A scholarly book of great importance to me appears to have gone missing from my library. It was heavily…

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15 February 2014 9:00 am

Q. Over New Year I stayed with a man who combines being a generous and exciting host with a punctilious…

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11 January 2014 9:00 am

So I go to the all-night house party with my rolled-up yoga mat under my arm. Nice house, middle-class crowd,…