Maurice Druon died on Tuesday at the age of 92
I read his trilogy, published in English as The Curtain Falls mostly as I lay on my stomach in a small tent during an extraordinarily wet family camping holiday in Pembrokeshire the summer I was just 14. It made the most tremendous impact on me, as a primer in the ways of the adult world
Although I was delighted to come across a second hand copy on the same bookstall where I found Keynes on Probability, I have never wanted to re-read it, in case it disappoints the grown up, but it sits on the shelves as a kind of reminder of youthful innocence
I still occasionally read one of his historic novels – my schoolgirl French can still cope with that precise Academic style
I read his trilogy, published in English as The Curtain Falls mostly as I lay on my stomach in a small tent during an extraordinarily wet family camping holiday in Pembrokeshire the summer I was just 14. It made the most tremendous impact on me, as a primer in the ways of the adult world
Although I was delighted to come across a second hand copy on the same bookstall where I found Keynes on Probability, I have never wanted to re-read it, in case it disappoints the grown up, but it sits on the shelves as a kind of reminder of youthful innocence
I still occasionally read one of his historic novels – my schoolgirl French can still cope with that precise Academic style
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