Vendor
	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

Evelyn!

Duncan McLaren

A new biography of the author of BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

Duncan McLaren and his partner Kate follow in the footsteps of Evelyn Waugh. From Oxford to Dorset to the high life of 1920s Mayfair and beyond, the author traces the events and places that fed into classics like DECLINE AND FALL, VILE BODIES and A HANDFUL OF DUST. McLaren traces life, love, landscape and literature in a sparkling intertwining narrative.

Duncan McLaren was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs 2011.

Now writing , a memoir about his parents, based on his moving Saga blog Visiting Mabel about visiting his mother in her care home.

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Book Published 2015-05-01 by Harbour Books

Comments

"This type of writing is important. It reminds me of Larkin, of Laurie Lee and the nature poet John Clare and even the botanist Richard Mabey; it is a gentle English man's voice who cares about things close to home, dare I say England, family, his mother. This kind of writing has a well known and much loved lineage; it closely observes the everyday and gives us reason to think and pause and appreciate what is under our noses. I am glad to see that this kind of writing is not disappearing from our canon of prose."

"Does the world need another book about Evelyn Waugh? Absolutely not except when it is as original and enjoyable as this."

"A work of unexpected authority and revelation as well as great charm, which will make seasoned Waugh scholars sit up and see things they wish they had spotted themselves"

"McLaren brings the past to life with flamboyant ease (an) alert, comic and original approach to the frequently over-earnest world of critical studies in Eng. Lit."