Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden review – the man in the ironic mask

A lively, affectionate but far from adulatory new biography of the playwright marks the 50th anniversary of his death and draws on unpublished letters and diaries to expose a painful private life obscured by success

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