A RETURN TO MODESTY
I knew she was chronically sick, of course, but I first became aware of the death of modesty a few years ago when, in the hairdressers, I unwittingly flicked through an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Esme Shirt
By Wendy Shalit
Simon & Schuster. 291 pages. £16.99
ISBN 0 684 84316 1