ARGONAUT BOOKS

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his Aunt Augusta. Soon she persuades him to abandon his dahlias and neighbours to travel with her through Europe's hotel society, meeting a wide variety of unusual characters. Reviews Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and beliefThe TimesThe most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists - V S Pritchett, The TimesFunny and bizarre... This is a Greene with the lightest touchesThe Lady - Susan HillNo serious writer of [the twentith century] has mo...Read More