An English Affair
Independent on Sunday Books of the Year &#x2018;Wonderful and exacting&#x2019;Mail on Sunday Books of the Year &#x2018;A breakneck thriller and a brilliant dissection of the times&#x2019;Independent on Sunday Books of the Year &#x2018;This is more than simply an overview of the affair&#x2026;Davenport-Hines skewers an entire society&#x2019;&#x2018;A wonderful evocation of the period; a Rolls-Royce ride, with that hugely enjoyable sense of a writer being op top of his material and perfectly attuned to his subject&#x2019; David Kynaston, author of &#x2018;Austerity Britain&#x2019;&#x2018;An outstandingly evocative portrait of a hinge moment in our recent history, as well as a treasure trove of anecdotes&#x2019; Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times&#x2018;Fascinating &#x2026; a meticulous and witty portrait of a society built on the shaky foundations of snobbery, suspicion, hypocrisy and sexual anxiety&#x2019; Mail on Sunday&#x2018;Mesmerising. Brilliantly researched, irresistibly readable, fiercely polemical, &#x2018;An English Affair&#x2019; ought to sit on the desk of everyone who voices a view on the entanglement of politics, media and celebrity &#x2026; No book about the British past this year will cast a fiercer light on the British present&#x2019; Independent&#x2018;His research is impeccable and the story told with lip-smacking relish&#x2019; Daily Express&#x2018;A superb book&#x2019; Evening Standard&#x2018;[The Profumo Affair] has found a marvellous chronicler in Davenport-Hines, an incisive writer with a terrific eye for detail&#x2019; Sunday Telegraph&#x2018;[A] superb account of the scandal&#x2019; Mail on Sunday,&#x2018;[This] livid, lurid but enthralling history of &#x201C;sex, class and power in the age of Profumo&#x201D; boasts a rare passion and bravado&#x2019; Independent&#x2018;Davenport-Hines is superb on the English &#x2026; His eye is as shrewd and telling as Anthony Powell&#x2019;s&#x2019; Times&#x2018;It is written in a wonderfully sharp and witty style, and packed with illuminating details&#x2019; Craig Brown, Books of the year, Daily Mail