Ten books to mark the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death
Like his No 1 contemporary fan, Boris Johnson, the future Nobel literature laureate produced one novel and then stopped; and as in Boris’s Seventy-Two Virgins , in which a bicycling Tory MP pulls off a heroic counter-terrorist feat, the protagonist is transparently a fantasy version of his creator: an idealistic opposition leader in a Ruritanian state, “powerless to resist” his own ambition. Does the title show the debut novelist was improbably influenced by George Eliot?
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