A House of Air

Of all the novelists in English of the last quarter-century, Penelope Fitzgerald has the most unarguable claim on greatness.' Philip Hensher * Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even contemplated the possibility of going on-line. Her warmth, humour and supreme storytelling abilities found their best forum here. * Bound to be a fantastically funny book, as much of an entertainment as the Kingsley Amis letters.