A bestseller on publication in 1928, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, is a superb evocation of the Edwardian age and has remained in print ever since. Sassoon depicts life in pre-First World War Britain, one of quiet villages and cricket matches.
It is the first volume of a trilogy, followed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston’s Progress, that charts both the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought, and his own emergence as one of Britain’s finest war poets.
Reviewed by Flora Watkins in Slightly Foxed Issue 79.
Gone Away!
Can you recall the novel that took you away from the nursery bookshelves and into the realms of Grown-Up Books – a gateway book, if you like? I happened upon mine after months of resisting efforts...
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