How do you attract a pretty girl 40 years your junior? By being powerful and famous and constantly reminding her of the fact. Asquith, Prime Minister during WW I, became infatuated by a young aristocrat to whom he wrote daily - sometimes during cabinet meetings - astonishingly indiscreet and increasingly desperate letters. They provide a unique insight into the running of the nation and the psyche of a man in the last-chance emotional saloon. An utterly riveting story.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 62 Autumn 2011 ) |
