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Tessa Hadley: Emily HolmesColeman, 7 September 2023

The Shutter of Snow 
by Emily HolmesColeman.
Faber, 171 pp., £9.99, February, 978 0 571 37520 2
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... I’ve​ found out something disturbing about Emily HolmesColeman, which is that she wrote – and in biro – in other people’s books. She turned up once at the house of a friend, the novelist Mary Wesley, travelling with just two carrier bags of her things. Wesley mentioned that she had been reading Simone Weil, and the next morning found Coleman ‘sitting in bed wearing a fisherman’s jersey busily defacing Miss Weil’s Letter to a Priest ...

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