Inspector Cadover attempts to identify the body, just knowing that he had recently got a position as tutor to the son of an atomic scientist and that he was meant to be escorting the boy to Ireland.
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I don't think I have ever changed my mind so frequently about the merits of a story. I started off being rather frustrated by the style, but ended up enjoying it. At times the style is rather ponderous and long-winded, and the initial plot rather complicated. The writing is littered with quotations and rather academic in-jokes, which presumably meant something to someone at the time.
But there is something rather akin to Boys Own about this book and after Mr Thewless and Humphrey have crossed the sea to Ireland, and face various perils on their way to Humphrey's distant relatives, the action ramps up and it becomes a rollicking good story. Some people are not who they seem and both Humphrey and Mr Thewless turn out to have interesting characters.
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In the end, they seem to have got into a very tight pickle and I really wanted to know how they got out of it. Not everybody's cup of tea but an interesting insight into what appealed to readers in the uncertain times that followed the detonation of the atomic bombs at the end of World War Two.
After graduation he went to Vienna, to study Freudian psychoanalysis for a year and following his first book, an edition of Florio's translation of Montaigne, was offered a lectureship at the University of Leeds. In he married Margaret Hardwick, a doctor, and they subsequently had five children including Angus, also a novelist. The year saw Innes as Professor of English at the University of Adelaide, during which tenure he wrote his first mystery story, 'Death at the President's Lodging'.
With his second, 'Hamlet Revenge', Innes firmly established his reputation as a highly entertaining and cultivated writer. His most famous character is 'John Appleby', who inspired a penchant for donnish detective fiction that lasts to this day. Innes's other well-known character is 'Honeybath', the painter and rather reluctant detective, who first appeared in in 'The Mysterious Commission'. The last novel, 'Appleby and the Ospreys', was published in , some eight years before his death in Posted by Kerrie at 9: Thanks for telling us about the problem.
Return to Book Page. Jon Manchip White returns to his native Wales for the first time in twenty years and discovers that time has wrought immense change to this unusual and mysterious little country in the United Kingdom. While touring the c "The Journeying Boy" is a beautifully crafted travelogue, a charming history of Wales, and a nostalgic look back at one man's varied and interesting life.
The Case of the Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Journeying Boy , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Jul 29, Pop Bop rated it really liked it Shelves: Are you going to get an insightful and thoughtful tour of the author's childhood homeland or a self-indulgent recounting of the author's greatest hits and a string of gripes about how much better things used to be?
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Well, it seems to me that here you get a fair amount of both, with some ghost reckoning to boot, but it is "We'll kiss away each hour of hiraeth" the deep longing for home You never know with a book like this - return of the ish prodigal and expatriate to the scenes of his youth. Well, it seems to me that here you get a fair amount of both, with some ghost reckoning to boot, but it is done with a high degree of style and personality.
Anyway, at least, early on, you can get a sense of which way the wind will blow in any particular chapter and you can guide your reading, skimming and outright skipping accordingly. White's travels and reminiscences center pretty much on Cardiff, and especially the Docks that played a central role in his family's life , and the Glamorgan Valley.
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The first pages or so of the book are devoted to a basic but thorough history of Wales, starting with the Beaker People and petering out with Owen Glendower. This is all schoolboy stuff for a Welshman, but I like to get everything back into my head when reading a book like this, and the history is lively and personable and serves as a solid orientation for the rest of the book.
While the book is organized as a random sort of walk-about, individual chapters have a general theme. And so we take a stroll through what's left of Cardiff's port, we consider the appeal of rugby, we contemplate our relationship with God at Llandaff Cathedral. There isn't too much in the way of politics, White was vocally right of center , and a lot of broad generalizing about Welsh character that is, I guess, the stock in trade of ex-pat memoirists. All of that said, this is generally a fond, affectionate, and evenhanded book full of high regard and admiration for the very best qualities of the Welsh character.
When you add in a certain irascible charm, the combination won me over and I found myself enjoying this book even a bit more than I initially expected I would. A nice addition to the Wales shelf.
The Journeying Boy: Scenes from a Welsh Childhood
Apr 18, Catherine rated it really liked it. The detailed history of Wales coupled with the personal journey taken by the author was superb! Jeffrey Gilfix rated it it was amazing May 30,
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