Pippa Middleton's handbag offers a modern morality tale | Victoria Coren (@VictoriaCoren)

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Pippa Middleton's handbag offers a modern morality tale | Victoria Coren (@VictoriaCoren)

Having been on a reading jag for the past couple of weeks, I am brimming with book recommendations. Unfortunately, according to newspaper tradition, people only ever want to see those lists in December and July. I will tell you, however, that Rupert Everett's latest volume of autobiography, Vanished Years , contains the lines: "On my way home I pop into one of my favourite bars for a drink before dinner. Unbeknownst to me, it is Nude Sunday." If you don't want to read on after those words, I can't help you. Alongside that gripping work, I have raced through four novels, three memoirs and the picaresque tale of Pippa Middleton 's handbag. That last story was published episodically, like 19th-century Dickens. And, like 19th-century Dickens, it veered between wealth and poverty, glamour and gloom, shimmering with dramatic twists and silly names. Teasingly, with a masterful co...

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@Noonaness » 27 Jan '13, 10pm
Great article "@commentisfree: Pippa Middleton's handbag offers a modern morality tale | Victoria Coren [link]
@failingtofollow » 27 Jan '13, 9am
Fun and thoughtful piece by @victoriacoren shame that the search for a pithy sign off is slightly insulting [link]
@AJBruckshaw » 27 Jan '13, 1am
I am with Victoria Coren on this one about Pippa M's handbags [link] But why can't the Observer SHOW US THE BAG?
@DASRIEconomist » 27 Jan '13, 1am
“@commentisfree Pippa Middleton's handbag - a modern morality tale Victoria Coren [link] @VictoriaCoren A must read for all RI
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