![]() ![]() He finds out that the prefect of his house is about to be sacked for an indiscretion with another boy. We meet him when he's in public school as a young man. I would later learn that she was in a lifelong relationship with Julie Mullard, a woman with whom she attended Oxford with her when few did and after I read her biography by David Sweetman, I gathered that she had personally met the prototypes of the characters she would write of in The Charioteer, during her stint as a nurse in WWII. ![]() ![]() I do remember not caring whether or not she was a woman, though I do admit I was puzzled by her insight into my hidden self. Not only as an example of exceptional writing, but also as something I could believe in and set my personal standards to accordingly. This is not only my favourite book of all time it's also one of the best written I've ever read, to the extent that when I first read it at seventeen, I thought Renault had written it for me. Mariner Books, Reprint edition, February 16, 1994 ![]()
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