Synopsis
Montgomery Pew, a new and somewhat inept welfare officer, becomes fascinated with the new colonial immigrants of London, and in particular a Nigerian meteorlogy student, Johnny Fortune
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COLIN MACINNES (1914-76), son of novelist Angela Thirkell, cousin of Stanley Baldwin and Rudyard Kipling, grandson of Burne-Jones, was brought up in Australia but lived most of his life in London about which he wrote with a warts-and-all relish that earned him a reputation as the literary Hogarth of his day. Bisexual, outsider, champion of youth, ‘pale-pink’ friend of Black Londoners and chronicler of English life, MacInnes described himself as ‘a very nosy person’ who ‘found adultery in Hampstead indescribably dull’ and was much more at home in the coffee bars and jazz clubs of Soho and Notting Hill. A talented off-beat journalist and social observer, he is best known for his three London novels, City of Spades, Absolute Beginners and Mr Love and Justice. MacInnes died of cancer in 1976.
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“His perspective on the era when Persil really was thought to wash whiter was unique. His essays, novels and broadcasts sounded as though Orwell had let down his hair.”
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