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Jenny Turner: Justine Picardie, 5 January 2006
My Mother’s Wedding Dress: The Fabric of Our Lives
by Justine Picardie.
Picador, 336 pp., £12.99, September 2005,0 330 41306 6 Show More
by Justine Picardie.
Picador, 336 pp., £12.99, September 2005,
“... half understood, sinister, threatening; the atrophy of the body and the evanescence of life.’ Justine Picardie’s fashion memoir centres on the story of a dead sibling, in her case, a dead sister, Ruth. Ruth, as many readers will already know, was, like her sister, a writer and journalist on the fluffier end of London newspapers and magazines. She ... ”