A first edition, first printing of Mount’s first book: a wry and witty novel about an unspectacular Tory minister, his brigadier father, his daydreaming wife and merchant banker son. As the blurb states, it is an ‘unusually polished first novel by a young writer… [whose] numerous aunts and uncles include such intimidatingly professional authors as the Longfords and Anthony Powell. A hardback bound in sky-blue cloth in fine condition, with slight tanning to page edges but otherwise in excellent condition; the dust jacket is in good+ condition with a 1cm tear to the lower front panel and another 1cm tear at the bottom of the spine.
