The ninth novel in C. P. Snow's magnificent Strangers and Brothers series. Set between 1955 and 1958 it tells the story of Roger Quaife, Whitehall diplomat and expert manipulator.
C. P. Snow was born in Leicester in 1905 and educated at a secondary school. He started his career as a professional scientist, though writing was always his ultimate aim. He won a research scholarship to Cambridge and became a Fellow of his college in 1930. He continued his academic life there until the beginning of the Second World War, by which time he had already begun his masterwork - the eleven-volume Strangers and Brothers sequence, two of which (The Masters and The New Men) were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. His other novels include The Search, The Malcontents and In Their Wisdom, the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1974. Snow became a civil servant during the war and went on to become a Civil Service commissioner, for which he received a knighthood. He married a fellow novelist, Pamela Hansford Johnson, in 1950 and delivered his famous lecture, The Two Cultures, that same year. C. P. Snow died in 1980.
I must be one of a multitude who find vintage C. P. Snow compulsive
reading . . . very good indeed! * Tatler *
Magnificent . . . cool, elegant and exciting. * Sunday Times *
An admirable political novel . . . charmingly square * Sunday
Telegraph *
Sheer authority and authenticity * Vogue *
One of the most intellectually gifted men to become a novelist . .
. Snow displays a compassionate understanding of that human tragedy
that lies at the heart of all great literature * Guardian *
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