The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'A joy to read and re-read - the perfect match of author and subject' Hugh Massingberd, 'Books of the Year', Spectator
A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has held a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
Wilson's forte is the character and he brilliantly conveys
Betjeman's odd mixture of introspection and sociability, gaiety and
melancholia, exhibition and self-disgust ... Betjeman is a poet who
badly needs saving from his soppier fans, and this Wilson has
done
*Daily Telegraph*
Funny, poignant and unusually well written, Wilson's biography does
the old boy proud
*Mail on Sunday*
An A-grade demonstration of the point of Betjeman, the vast
constituencies to which he appealed and the area of English life
that he made his own
*Independent*
Terrific... [Wilson's] book zeroes in on Betjeman's struggles with
his faith, which he places dead centre of the life and work, and on
his family difficulties, and does so with extraordinary imaginative
sympathy... Essential
*Spectator*
A joy to read and re-read - the perfect match of author and
subject
*Spectator*
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