Deborah Ross

Non-magnetic north

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The script is drivel and full of stereotypes but at least it makes you feel better about never being able to live there</span></p>

issue 24 June 2017

  • Hampstead

    12A, Nationwide

Oh, Hampstead, what did you do to deserve Hampstead? Bet you wish the film-makers had pressed on down Fitzjohn’s Avenue and made Swiss Cottage, say. On the other hand, maybe you did have it coming, especially as I once overheard one mother say to another in the Coffee Cup: ‘James? He had so much homework we had to send him to boarding school.’

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