Farewell Leicester Square Category_Grey Books/Widows PREFACE BY AN WILSON

PREFACE BY AN WILSON

Virginia Woolf's father

An unusual and telling example of the 1950s modernist novel

is above all fun

often reveal greater truths than might initially appear

Farewell Leicester Square Category_Grey Books/Widows PREFACE BY AN WILSONPREFACE BY JANE MILLER 336pp ISBN 9781903155035 Betty Miller wrote this, her fourth novel, in 1935. But her publisher, Victor Gollancz, 'turned the book down flat,' wrote Neal Ascherson in The New York Review of Books. 'It seems most likely that he saw it as terrifyingly provocative, not only an attack on the solid English assimilation of his own family but a tactless outburst against the English at precisely the moment, two years after Hitler's