Book description
Satirizing the tedium of upper-middle-class life in post-war London,
this novel depicts a world in which substance is far less important to
anyone than appearance. The question asked throughout the text concerns
the differences between doting and loving.
Henry Green is the pen-name for Henry Vincent Yorke, the son of a
prosperous Midlands industrialist. He was born near Tewkesbury in 1905
and was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he wrote his first novel,
Blindness, published in 1926. He entered the family business
on the factory-floor, and went on to run the firm while writing eight
further novels as a spare-time occupation. Doting, published in
1952, was his last. In the opinion of Rebecca West he was "the
most original... the best writer of his time", while for L. P.
Hartley he was "a spellbinder, a true artist".
Henry Green died in 1973.
