Feeling your age? A bit depressed by child prodigies like Mozart and Keats?
Take heart. Late Bloomers by Brendan Gill (Artisan, £9.99, ISBN 1 885183
48 8) is a delightful little book that examines very briefly the lives of great
people who made their marks in middle age or after, including Charles Darwin and
Alexander Fleming.
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