Edward the Rake - by John Pearson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>These chapters in the life of Edward the Rake are dealt with frankly and light-heartedly. It is the story of a man who enjoyed himself and his indelicate advantages to the full, a penetrating and yet not unsympathetic portrait of the monarch and of the discreetly swinging social world that he created around him,<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An amusing overview of the age" --<i>Kirkus</i><br><br>An amusing overview of the age <i>Kirkus</i>"<br><br>An amusing overview of the age "Kirkus""<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history.</p><p>He has worked on various newspapers, including the<i> Economist</i>, <i>The Times</i>, and<i> The Sunday Times </i>where for a time he wrote the <i>Atticus</i> column.</p><p>After the success of his <i>Life of Ian Fleming</i>, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers in <i>The Profession of Violence</i> and has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family following his earlier successes.</p>
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