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said Hugo Rifkind in The Times

“whose psychological pain and behavioural disturbances were equal in severity to the cardinal symptoms of a major psychiatric illness

Except when he is at the microphone with a large martini

The scandal that prompts its central character’s downfall isn’t the only hazy thing about The Sparsholt Affair

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