Claire Bloom has now written two books about her life. Lest this give rise to any suspicion of autobiographical surfeit, she notes in the Preface to the latest volume, that her earlier book, Lime-light and After, constituted merely 'a modest account' of her acting career, whereas the new work presents a more thoughtful self-portrait of Bloom, the female.

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