Confessions av A. N. Wilson

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<p><b>When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ¿ </b><i>Stephen Fry</i><br><br> Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love and his life in Grub Street as a prolific writer.<br><br> Before he came to London, as one of the ¿Best of Young British¿ novelists, and Literary Editor of the<i> Spectator</i>, we meet another A. N. Wilson. We meet his father, the Managing Director of Wedgwood, the grotesque teachers at his first boarding school, and the dons of Oxford ¿ one of whom, at the age of just 20, he married, the renowned Shakespearean scholar, the late Katherine Duncan-Jones.<br><br> At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self ¿ whether flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood. His chapter on the High Camp