A Bottle in the Smoke

The talented and prolific British novelist and biographer here continues the fascinating story of Julian Ramsay, begun in Incline Our Hearts (1989), Julian, the orphan, has chronicled his earlier life with Aunt Deirdre and Uncle Roy in a short novel meant to spoof their provincial parsonage-bound life. In order next to create his putative masterpiece, Julian has abandoned a sensible career in accounting and now works part-time at the Black Bottle, a Soho pub owned by a T.S. Eliot look-alike with a wonderfully disorienting foul mouth.


Genre: Literary Fiction