Daughters of Albion

The third volume in Wilson's "Lampitt Papers" sequence is just as engaging and entertaining as the first two Incline Our Hearts and A Bottle in the Smoke. The entire work is proving to be a roman à fleuve of brilliant social and historical sweep--a high comedic romp through our times. This latest installment brings Julian Ramsay, now in his 40s, into the Sixties, when he's still working as a radio actor and fearing himself a failure. Julian and his cousin Felicity share a house in London, where she works as a civil servant, having abandoned academic philosophy. Through a series of coincidences, they both fall under the spell of one Rice Robey, a latter-day mystic and Blakean visionary who once wrote some novels under the name "Albion Pugh."


Genre: Literary Fiction