From our subscribers' submissions: Eleanor Anstruther's A Memoir in 65 Postcards
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— ‘My boyfriend and I took off on the motorbike, a Royal Enfield Bullet heavy with luggage, and purring. We headed first to meet his brother – also estranged until now – for a few nights of giant beetles flying into my hair and then north up the Western Ghats. The monsoon chased us’: the opening pages of Eleanor Anstruther’s A Memoir in 65 Postcards & The Recovery Diaries. We’ll soon be publishing her piece on prose style.
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