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A new novel by Laurence Fleming, whose award-winning first novel was published in 1959 to great acclaim by, among others, Nancy Mitford. It is a bleak but darkly comic description of an afternoon session in a clinic for alcoholics, sharply observed and poignant. As the characters talk, we see glimpses of what has led them to this point, and through interior monologue their self-delusions and attitudes to their situation and the incongruous group of which they are a part - horror, shame, amusement, contempt. This is a powerful, controversial and unflinching book. "Dudley is quite silent. Poor old boy. He must have been incredibly handsome when he was young. For a moment one could see it, the glorious young officer swinging through the trees of the Burmese jungle. Or whatever they did. Now he's just a tired and sad old man almost indistinguishable from his thick-knit oatmeal pullover. He must be boiled. And all because he told us something he has probably never told anyone before." "I lay a moment to give all that air time to settle and then I ran. Stupidly sobbing. I could hear the train slowing. They must have seen me. And I ran as fast as I could realising that the one thing I was afraid of was being caught. I couldn't face the explanations. I found a gap, bigger than the other. There was an old moon, lying on its back. I ran through the wood. That was when I felt those ghosts. I was in the house before the train came back. I heard some talking but no shouting. And everyone in Copsewood slumbered on as if nothing had happened."

About the Author :
Throughout his varied life - which has included the Cambridge Footlights, theatrical set design in Paris and landscape design all over the world - Laurence Fleming has been an author. His first novel won the Artemis Prize in 1959 (judged by Angus Wilson, Nancy Mitford and Penelope Mortimer). Since then, his credits include: the bestselling The English Garden (Michael Joseph, 1979), Old English Villages (Weidenfeld, 1986) and Roberto Burle Marx: a Portrait (Editora Index, 1996).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780948238338
  • Publisher: Black Spring Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Black Spring Press Ltd
  • Height: 177 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 125 mm
  • ISBN-10: 094823833X
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 283 gr


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