Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount
A memoir thronged with characters and anecdotes of many shades and hue, from cucumber sandwiches with Siegfried Sassoon, and Harold Acton in Florence having the author's aesthetic flourishes swatted by his outspoken mother, through his schooldays, to reclining on his landlady's hearthrug, hoping to pose for Augustus John.
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Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love and Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls 'Tales of History and Imagination', including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747595076 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747595070 |
| Title | Cold Cream |
| Author | Ferdinand Mount |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2008-04-14 |
| Number of pages | 388 |
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