The Undesired Result
Gillian Darley: Betjeman’s bêtes noires, 31 March 2005
Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter
by Bevis Hillier.
Murray, 744 pp., £25, October 2004,0 7195 6495 6 Show More
by Bevis Hillier.
Murray, 744 pp., £25, October 2004,
“... to premature autobiography.’ Precocious Beverley Nichols headed the field with Twenty-Five while Christopher Isherwood and Cyril Connolly wisely allowed another ten years of their lives to elapse before they wrote, respectively, Lions and Shadows and Enemies of Promise. Hillier publishes long sections of Summoned by Bells which were excised, including ... ”