What’s wrong with Desmond?
Ian Hamilton, 30 August 1990
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy
by Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil.
Gollancz, 320 pp., £18.95, July 1990,0 575 03622 2 Show More
by Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil.
Gollancz, 320 pp., £18.95, July 1990,
“... influence was at its peak. It was not until 1984, when MacCarthy’s son-in-law, Lord David Cecil, edited a new selection of MacCarthy’s writings, that it occurred to me to find out about him for myself – i.e. to read something he had written. He turned out to be much sharper and funnier, and more stylish, than I had been led to believe – and far ... ”
