With BBC TV's dramatisation of Vanity Fair commencing next week, Griff Rhys Jones asks if there was a model for Thackeray's Becky Sharpe. Chinese author
Adeline Yen Mah talks about her childhood, which is movingly evoked in her memoir Falling Leaves, plus books to read to babies and some recommendations for older readers. See today's choices. Series editor Mary Sackville West