Francis King
A Very Greek Affair
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
By Eileen Warburton
Jonathan Cape 510pp £25 order from our bookshop
SAM GOLDWYN NOTABLY remarked: ‘Folks shouldn’t write autobiographies until they are dead.’ He might have added: ‘Folks shouldn’t write biographies until their subjects are dead.’ If, in addition, the biographer has not merely been a friend of the been the subject’s choice for the task, then the odds on an absolutely truthful, and therefore worthwhile, biography are even longer.
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