18 OCTOBER 2008, page 38

First Knight And His Lady

Sarah Burton A S TRANGE , E VENTFUL H ISTORY : T HE D RAMATIC L IVES OF E LLEN T ERRY , H ENRY I RVING AND T HEIR R EMARKABLE FAMILIES by Michael Holroyd Chatto, £25, pp. 590,......

H Aving Just Read Something About The New Film Of Brideshead

Revisited, I picked up the novel, opened it at random, and then, some two hours later, a good part of my working evening was gone. I suppose it is now Waugh’s most popular novel......