LAST OF ENGLAND

By Ted Walker

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224032119
• ISBN13: 9780224032117
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A moving tribute

Ted Walker tells a profoundly moving story of his wife's long and ultimately fatal battle with a particularly disfiguring cancer of the face. He tells of his own grief at being robbed of their anticipated retirement years together, at her failing health and his inability to stop it, and at the huge loss he felt at her death. The cancer that eats away at his wife is compared with the rot the author sees in England at this time (the mid-eighties) - the rise of Thatcherism and the apparent acceptance by most people of 'the yobbish bad manners' of so many people. Walker flees to Spain after his wife Lorna's death, but ultimately returns to England not just to face life again but to welcome it... As Walker is a poet, the author's prose is a delight to read; beautifully descriptive, evocative and totally without sentimentality. One of the best books I have ever read.