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by Charmian Clift (both Muswell £8.99, 210pp) There is a famously dreamy image which has helped to keep the Greek island of Hydra’s version of La Dolce Vita alive. Sitting under an old tree at Douskos Taverna, Leonard Cohen is plucking at his guitar with a fair-haired woman’s head on his shoulder, a faraway look in her eyes. The relaxed intimacy of the body language and the woman’s good looks has led to the assumption that she was Cohen’s Norwegian lover Marianne Ihlen, famously captured in the eponymous song: So Long, Marianne. But the woman in question was the late Australian writer Charmian Clift Charm to her friends who suited her euphonius name. ....