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3 unusual facts about Tom Gross


Roots Club

The restaurant was brought to world attention by British journalist Tom Gross and by the Israeli Government Press Office.

Sonia Orwell

Her godson Tom Gross has written in The Spectator magazine that “although Sonia had no children of her own, she became almost like a second mother to me”.

Her friend the painter Francis Bacon paid off her outstanding debts and at her funeral Tom Gross read the same passage from Ecclesiastes about the breaking of the golden bowl that she had asked Anthony Powell to read at Orwell's funeral thirty years earlier.



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