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From award winning novelist and journalist David Profumo comes a
dazzling work about the restorative power of nature and finding joy
in simple pleasures. 'David Profumo has fished everywhere man and
boy, and come back with his creel crammed with adventures and
misadventures - a memoir for every fisherman's bookshelf.' Tom
Stoppard It is often said there is more to the experience of
fishing than the mere catching of fish, and in this evocative,
wide-ranging memoir he explores the delights and mysteries of one
of mankind's most ancient pursuits. As we move from the Highland
waters of his childhood and into his adult travels from the Arctic
Circle to the South Seas, The Lightning Thread unpeels this
idiosyncratic subject, and shows how it embraces folklore, poetry,
magic, drink and disaster. By turns a lyrical celebration of the
natural world and also the quirkiness of human nature itself, this
is a hymn to the great happiness that pursuing his life's passion
has brought the author. In exuberant prose of warmth, wit and
lightly worn erudition, this is a future classic from one of our
finest writers - across forty countries and sixty years, one man's
quest for perfection. 'With wit, quiet craft, and a lifetime's
store of piscatorial wisdom, Profumo draws us into his paradise.'
Luke Jennings, author of the Killing Eve novels 'A fabulous
confection of history, biology, philosophy and memoir...spiked with
wit and crafted with precision and style.' Loyd Grossman 'An
angling master and a dazzling writer. Everyone remotely interested
in fishing, or writing, would love this book.' Prue Leith 'The
Lightning Thread is a delicious account of a lifetime spent among
interesting fish, people and places by a compulsive angler who
seems to have forgotten nothing. Unimaginable that any fisherman
could put it down.' Thomas McGuane, author of The Longest Silence
David Profumo was just seven when his father, who had been
Secretary of State for War, resigned from the Macmillan government.
Despite the furore and humiliation that followed, his parents
famously stayed together - and now, forty years on, their son has
written this long-awaited account of their family life before,
during and after the sensational events of 1963. Drawing on
diaries, letters and other memorabilia never before made public,
Bringing The House Down describes their background and careers
before they met. After an apprenticeship in Hollywood during her
teenage years, the beautiful Valerie Hobson went on to star in
numerous British films before her stage triumph in 'The King and
I'; John Profumo had been the youngest MP during the Second World
War, became a Brigadier at the age of thirty, and was rapidly
rising through the ranks of the Conservative party. This is the
story of their complicated courtship and volatile marriage, the
destruction of their glamorous lifestyle and their endurance of the
aftermath. By turns intimate, caustic and poignant, their only
child's personal memoir of their three lives together not only puts
flesh on the bones of the old family skeleton but also offers a
remarkable portrait of a love affair that somehow survived in a
world turned upside down.
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