The Elsie Drake Letters (Aged 104)

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Two of my favourite books ever are The Timewaster Letters by Robert Popper. Imagine my surprise and absolute delight dear reader when I heard there's a similar new book, The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104), from the amazing Mr Popper.


Buy all three, sit back and lose yourself into a glorious eccentric Britain that never existed but absolutely does in all our minds.

Definitely the funniest things you'll read this decade.

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