… Finding Helena. (Hat tip Dave Lull.)
Despite a rocky start, I fell hook,
Sara’s notebook from the HRC archives in Texas. A treasured possession!
line and sinker for this novel. I recommend it now almost as boldly as Waugh himself did, partly because it’s so little known or read. At first, all I could see was a horsey British teenager; I got stuck on the ‘bosh’ and ‘rot’. Why write a historical novel at all if Penelope Betjeman – on whom Helena is loosely based – seems more present than anything else.
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