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The Dog at Clambercrown
Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
The Dog at Clambercrown takes its name from a mysterious pub - seductive and frightening, never visited, only heard of – that fascinates Brooke’s child narrator in this beautiful and utterly original work of autobiographical fiction.
Both a journey through Europe and a return to the forbidden kingdoms of a Kentish childhood, the novel interweaves past and present as Brooke, responding...
Details
302 pages
Imprint: Bello
Reviews
Mr Jocelyn Brooke is one of the most interesting and talented of contemporary writers . . . we are left as delighted by the hundredth performance as we were at the first. It is magic—conjuring—of which we never tire: an example of what is called ‘art’.Anthony Powell, Punch
. . . In this fourth autobiographical-fictional itinerary, the ways are more enchanted and twisty, the scent keener than ever. Here is a writer possessed by the magic—the voodoo—of childhood . . . Mr. Brooke is a pleasure to read—a highly individual pleasure.G. W. Stonier, New Statesman
A fugitive form of reminiscence, and often disarmingly clever, this has a very special appeal at an aesthetic-intellectual levelKirkus Reviews