Orlando King

The Masterpiece Of One Of The Most Important And Overlooked British Women Writers Of The Twentieth Century, With A New Introduction By Melissa Harrison; Isabel Colegate Has No Rival (The Times)If You Are Curious As To Why Britain Is Still Ruled By A Tiny Cadre Of Not-Very-Introspective Aristo-Capitalists, Orlando King Is Essential Reading Sunday TimesColegateS Sharp-Eyed Trilogy About A Young Man On The Make In 1930S London Feels Particularly Resonant Right Now, Given Its Acute Take On Male Privilege And Power I Paper, Summer Reading Picks 2020An Extraordinary Achievement Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement, Summer Reading Picks 2020Orlando King Is A Trilogy About A Beautiful Young Man, Raised In A Remote And Eccentric Wilderness, Arriving In 1930S London And Setting The World Of Politics Ablaze. In A Time Of Bread Riots And Hunger Marches, With The Spectre Of Fascism Casting An Ever Lengthening Shadow Over Europe, Orlando Glidingly Cuts A Swathe Through The Thickets Of Business, The Corridors Of Politics, The Pleasure Gardens Of The Cliveden Set, Acquiring Wealth, Adulation, A Beautiful Wife, And A Seat In Parliament. But The Advent Of War Brings With It OrlandoS Downfall; And His Daughter Agatha, Cloistered With Him In His Banishment, Is Left To Pick Through The Rubble Of His Smoking, Ruined Legacy. Elegant And Muscular, Powerful And Razor-Sharp, Orlando King Is A Bildungsroman, Greek Tragedy And Political Saga All In One; A Glittering Exorcism Of The Inter-War GenerationS Demons To Rival The Work Of Evelyn Waugh And Muriel Spark.