![]() ![]() ![]() At the lunch Berlin "pressed the merits of Genet, Memoirs of Hecate County & Lolita upon Her Majesty these titles were duly written down by a courtier". From my diary: June 7 '09 - I am reading - or at any rate riffling through Enlightening, the letters of Isaiah Berlin 1946-2009 and came across an account of how Berlin (and other eminent guests) lunched with the Queen on 11 June 1957. P.3 'This is an extraordinary coincidence. It’s also C.S Lewis’ "we need to know we are not alone".' ![]() saying, "It’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours." The Uncommon Reader is just an expansion of that with HMQ now the reader finding her hand taken. My partner Rupert Thomas had the notion of the spectacles and the crown but it was Peter who tilted the crown and so made it witty.'įlyleaf 'I suppose The Uncommon Reader is linked with, comes out of, the scene between Hector and Posner in The History Boys which ends with H. Title page 'The jacket was designed by the late Peter Campbell. ![]()
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