Out now!724 pages, Paperback 198x130mm, Portrait ISBN-10: 1907429808 ISBN-13: 9781907429804
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‘Evelyn Waugh was the most complicated of men … It is the first great virtue of Selina Hastings’ splendid biography that she never forgets it. Consequently she has written a sympathetic and highly intelligent book which also – rarity of rarities these
days – reads rapidly. It is sympathetic also because, like Waugh himself, the author adores gossip.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Be assured that you would be unlikely to find a more entertaining, delightful and rewarding book on Waugh if you
were to search for the next twenty years. The narrative is at once gripping and thoughtful on every page.’ Mail on Sunday
‘Her style is supremely elegant and her eye for detail brings dazzle and wit to every page … This is a monumental book.’ Independent on Sunday
‘Evelyn Waugh was one of the funniest writers in the language. Selina Hastings’ book is alive with his humour.’ Sunday Express
Selina Hastings - Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist, and the author of
four literary biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh
(winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann
and Somerset Maugham. A Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the
Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff
Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers’ Award.
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