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‘I foresaw all sorts of opposition from my parents if they should discover what I was about to do, so I decided to steal out of London as quickly and as quietly as possible…’ The year is 1927. Philip Allingham, aged 21, stares out of an office window near Piccadilly Circus, musing on life’s futility. He has tried his hand at pretty well every job his parents would consider respectable and failed at every one of them. ‘Suddenly it dawned on me – and the relief of that discovery was extraordinary – that there was nothing at all to prevent me from earning my living reading the future in other people’s hands.’ So begins the career recounted by Allingham in this vivid and richly comic memoir. Cheapjack was an instant best-seller when it first came out in 1934 but has long been unobtainable. This reprint includes a new introduction by Francis Wheen and an afterword by Julia Jones, biographer of Philip’s sister, the crime novelist Margery Allingham, whose involvement with Cheapjack was kept a family secret.
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