Book description
We should have awakened to the sun streaming in from across the valley,
but this is not a story about things as they should be, and it was a
dark blustery morning, blasting the blossom off the may. Only in the
shelter of the high hedgerows down in the lanes streaked with red mud
was there ant escape from the wind and the rain. Just as we were putting
on our boots, I pinned down the unidentified fear of the night before. I
had slept without my asthma pillow. It was not the first time . But this
was the first time I had slept without it and not properly noticed until
the morning after. This must, I though, be love. Would it be punished
to? Ferdinand Mount has been editor of the
Times Literary Supplement
since 1991. Of Love and Asthma,
which forms part of the series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight,
was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. Umbrella,
the first of his Tales of History and Imagination,
was described by the Oxford historian Niall Ferguson as 'quite simply
the best historical novel in years'. He is also well known as a
political columnist and essayist and has written several works of
non-fiction including The Subversive Family
and The British Constitution Now
