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{{newreview
|author=Claire Tomalin
|title=Charles Dickens: A Life
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Having already written biographies of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen, among others, to say nothing of a study of Dickens and his mistress Nelly Ternan, Claire Tomalin is admirably qualified to produce a major life of the author to mark the bicentenary of his birth in 1812. (Sadly, she says this will be her last large-scale book).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917672</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gerry O'Hara