The Orchid Trilogy
12 October 2017Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
A disarming, lyrical hybrid of fiction and autobiography, this forgotten masterpiece of post-war English fiction follows a small boy through his First World War childhood and teenage years on the Kentish coast, then into the army and frontline service in the Second World War.
Obsessed by his strange twin passions for orchids and for fireworks, the author-narrator paints a haunting...
Details
12 October 2017304 pages
9781509855803Imprint: Bello
Reviews
He is as subtle as the devilJohn Betjeman
One of those too-rare books whose enjoyability makes it seem too short.Elizabeth Bowen
It is a kind of collage of sharply drawn bits of real life, excellently described and artistically arrangedStephen Spender
One of the notable writers to have surfaced after the warAnthony Powell
