Born to a diplomat father and a mystically inclined mother, Henry glides through public school, Oxford and the Foreign Office with the same ease and elegance that characterise his numerous love affairs and, at first, his marriage to flame-haired Flavia. Then, somewhere, something goes wrong.
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Readers may initially react with skepticism to the publisher's comparison of Billington to Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But it doesn't take long to recognize the truth in this claim. The author, whose previous eight novels include A Woman's Age and Occasion of Sin, is an exceptionally strong writer, and here offers an intricate, ironic story centering on the life of Henry Hayes-Middleton, born in 1940 to a seemingly mismatched couple. His father is a rigid fellow entirely devoted to his career in the British Foreign Office; his mother is a romantic, at times remote woman who tries for years to interest Henry in Roman Catholicism. Through his years in boarding schoool, at university and as a rising star in the Foreign Office, Henry will have none of it. But at the age of 30 or so, after his wife leaves him and he abandons his diplomatic career, he experiences what he labels a "divine revelation"; his parents and friends, however, think he has grown mad. This polished work confirms Billington as a first-class contemporary British novelist. 35,000 first printing; $25,000 ad/promo.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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