This skilful, moving jeu d’esprit could just as well be in the fiction section. It’s about both the poet and the author’s preoccupation with him, and contains as much fiction as fact. If you ever think at all fondly of Betjeman (and even if you don’t) it will be a joy; and if you ever studied Eng lit, or had opinions about teaching, acting, poetry, fatherhood, churches, or many other things including not being quite totally 100% hetero or homo then this will beguile you. We still have a picture of Betjeman at Sandoe’s on which he drew a monocle that he believed made him look like Radclyffe Hall.
We like this book so much that we have prevailed upon the publisher to produce a limited hardback edition exclusively for John Sandoe’s.
