Jean recommended this book.There was general agreement that the story would make a good film - Gavin suggested the book might have been written for that purpose.
Jean 6/12/98
The autobiography of a travel writer, who was brought up by obsessively spiritualist parents. He cottoned on pretty quickly that it was a load of claptrap but handled it sensibly, with only gentle mocking.
He had an interesting, extraordinary marriage, his wife's family having mafia connections. Her parents could have been from a work of fiction.
He appeared to be a very nice man with an interesting life, well recounted.
Doreen said of the book "Wonderful, I really enjoyed it." She liked his account of childhood the best and found the second section, life in the army, rather less interesting - although the author may have disagreed, learning Arabic and joining the intelligence service.
Doreen wholeheartedly recommends this interesting, well written book.
Doreen 13/6/99