I tell one story of the Julia Pascal launch here, although I've left out the fact that Oona King adopted a baby four months ago, who is now seventeen months old, and also how when I said to her how surprised I was to learn that she is Miriam Stoppard's niece, she laughed and said, "everybody says that" and told me that her mother contributed "lots" to her sister, Miriam Stoppard's, various books on parenting.
Also, that when I said to Edwina Currie, that I'd seen her talking about the archive on television with her daughter and baby granddaughter, and how calm the baby had been on camera, how relaxed about being handed from lap to lap, she said; "ah yes, a girl who's destined to be Davina McCall," a whole new kind of ambition for Jewish grandmothers to nurse for their descendants.
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