Book description
At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the
arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and
returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps
that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own
betrayals and weaknesses. But most of all, the memory of his lost love,
Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most
importantly, himself? Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began
to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English
lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of
Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
and Goodbye to Berlin,
draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles,
later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret
. Isherwood travelled with W. H Auden to China in the late 1930s before
going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel
A Single Man
was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin
Firth and Julianne Moore.
