Instead, here he is, dressed in pyjamas rather than his signature Dickensian garb, ensconced in a hospital bed.
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From Muriel Spark to Yoko Ono, Peter Owen relives a life in publishing
Life for the legendary publisher Peter Owen should have been one heady round of parties last month, culminating in a champagne-fuelled evening in his elegant, ivy-clad home in London’s Holland Park, attended by the glitterati and the literati, indeed anyone who’s anyone in British letters.
