Not only did she succeed in this, she became a mother, too: Mr Lanchester's.

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Her Irish family thought her makeover as Mrs Lanchester in faraway Hong Kong a form of snobbery.

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Colin Clive is back as the proud and overly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein, who creates the ill-fated bride (Elsa Lanchester).

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It is after his father's early retirement and his parents' return to England that Mr Lanchester does less well.

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The success of Mr Lanchester's book suggests that other books on the crisis may be either too big or too obsessed with the personalities of individual bankers.

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Kenneth Joyce, 53, of Lanchester, suffered fatal head and neck injuries in 2008 after falling to the ground when a girder struck the cherry picker in which he was standing.

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To match his mother's pre-marriage life, Mr Lanchester junior draws the early years of his father, who was dispatched to Australia for schooling while his parents settled into colonial life in Hong Kong.

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Among her new adventures, Julia acquired a British passport that cut nine years from her 40 so that in 1961 she could become Mrs Bill Lanchester (he was six years younger than her real age).

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