Volume 52, Number 4 · March 10, 2005

A Very Un-English Childhood

By Gabriele Annan
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
by Richard Wollheim

London: Waywiser Press, 263 pp., £13.99; £10.95 (paper)

A germ, according to the British Medical Association's Complete Family Health Encyclopedia, is



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