Michael Holroyd
Birth date: August 27, 1935
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A four-star book which has afforded me five-star reading pleasure: a very simple, very well written story with an ending which feels real.It is a very low-key novel about what can make a shattered person reasonably whole again. Here, Tom Birkin, an ex-soldier 'pushed ... through the mincer' of WW I ...
Not sure if I will ever get back to this fine work for a second reading, but it sure was enjoyable. There may be a review forthcoming, but perhaps not. Time is at a premium these days.
New Review! Great War survivor, glorious prose, life-changing moments. http://tinyurl.com/psdloo3 Like the Bonnard on the cover, it's a richly colored, simply rendered, and deeply satisfying artwork. It's not flashy or overwrought. It is elegant and luxurious and I am very glad that I read it.
bookshelves: summer-2014, fradio, published-2012, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, trains-planes-automobiles, radio-4x Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 29 to June 07, 2014 R4x http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01npgn7Description: Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobile...
A gorgeous eulogy for the perfect SummerBirkin, a damaged World War One veteran, is employed to a find and restore a mural in a village church, whilst another veteran is employed to look for a grave beyond the churchyard walls. The writer looks back 58 years later, and as an old man, on his idyllic...
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