This autobiographical novel explores how Jeremy, a privately educated schoolboy, comes to reject his comfortable rural Surrey background to end up in the squats, drugs and hippy scene of 1970s Hornsey Rise. The central theme of the book is Jeremy's need to escape from the intense relationship with his alcoholic, charismatic and mentally unstable mother, her lovers, his ageing, ailing father, and about his romantic relationships. Foremost among his mother's lovers is former Indian Army officer,...
Denkmäler und Lobschriften auf Gelehrte, verdienstvolle Männer,
by Johann August Ernesti