Albertus by Simon Garfield

Author:Simon Garfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2024-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

One of the most memorable Faber jackets – for Philip Larkin’s second novel A Girl in Winter (a well-wrapped woman carrying a letter as snow descends around her) – was created in 1947, not by Wolpe but by his wife Margaret.

Deborah has created two fat books of photographs showing the range of her mother’s work, illustrations alongside carvings, pottery and textiles. Family photographs too, suggesting almost everything happened in their kitchen in Kennington. A black-and-white television is crammed in alongside pictures and pots, some wine on the table, a cropcircle calendar and a dragonfly kite. ‘Ghost images and snowstorms on the television, because there were lots of tower blocks near us where the signal came in, but if you hit the boiler thermostat that improved the picture … That’s Mum’s garden, she had apple trees, a mulberry, a fantastic magnolia, sour cherry. That’s one of the cats named Sid after Sid Vicious because he used to bite everyone.§

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