Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in India and the Far East, the development of his fiction and the characters on whom his most famous creations were based. The author also wrote "Ivy When Young", "Secrets of a Woman's Heart", "Handbook to Anthony Powell's Music of Time" and "Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book".
- ISBN10 0712650326
- ISBN13 9780712650328
- Publish Date 8 August 1991 (first published 25 October 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Pimlico
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 438
- Language English