Summary
He was 'Snoop' to his mother's 'Snig' and 'Poj' to his longtime friend Esmé Wynne's 'Stoj'. Games and 'Baby Talk' were hallmarks of the 'family' while his lifelong favourite books, reread annually, were E. Nesbit's tales of Edwardian children in fantasy adventures; The Enchanted Castle was his final bedtime reading.
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Love From Snoop or Poj
THE LETTERS OF NOËL COWARD edited by Barry Day Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 800, ISBN 9780713685787 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
Noël Coward owned always that luck played a part in his astonishing career alongside his various talents as an actor, dramatist, composer, artist (he described his painting as 'Touch and Gauguin'), film director and fiction-writer.At vario...See the full content of this document
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