Betjeman's great defender

A N Wilson's biography of John Betjeman shows the late poet laureate as a product of his Highgate childhood, writes Jane Wright

THE late Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman once wrote: “I think people’s lives are interesting only up until they are 21.”
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