Book description
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes
a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity
committees. She is the model wife and her life is one of ease,
contentment and privilege. All that changes though when she is
suddenly left widowed after a senseless tragedy. Totally alone she is
thrust into a struggle to reconstruct her life as she realises that
she doesn't really know who she is anymore or who she is supposed to
be. The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot follows Meg as she tries to make sense
of the realities of life, of living and contemplates the future and
its possibilites. What she finds is the ability to survive and, also,
the joys of new friendships, new opportunities and perhaps even the
idea of a new love. Described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of
fiction's great female creatures', Meg Eliot is a powerful heroine who
inspired readers when she first appeared in 1958.
One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was
born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he
joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for
service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of
short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other
short-story collections, novels and plays. Co-founder with Malcolm
Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of
East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many
literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for
homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991.
