Possessed
A.N. Wilson, 14 May 1992
Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966
by Martin Stannard.
Dent, 523 pp., £25, April 1992,0 460 86062 3 Show More
by Martin Stannard.
Dent, 523 pp., £25, April 1992,
“... No Enemies of Promise here as for his half-hated friend Connolly. If Waugh had seen a pram in his hall, he would probably have been mortified; his reaction as a writer when his wife had babies was to go away and put up in a hotel where he could write in peace. Many novelists, like Anthony Powell, found that they could not get down to work while hostilities ... ”