Anyway, it is true that the young protagonists in my story do not seem very trustful of speech; and the two characters at the centre — Marius and Annabelle — were, I remembered, drawn from two people in real life who at the time seldom spoke, but to whom I and others were mysteriously and strongly drawn. Perhaps now, in this overt age of celebrity, there might be some recognition of the strength of inwardness rather than clamour.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICHOLAS MOSLEY was born in London on June 25, 1923 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in Italy during World War II, and published his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, in 1951. His book Hopeful Monsters won the 1990 Whitbread Award. He resides in London.