His Dear Time's Waste

A 1950s Literary and Love Life Memoir. In this entertaining and moving memoir Stuart Holroyd looks back to a time when, although known as one of the 'angry young men', he was really more powerfully driven on the one hand by his ambition and on the other by his libido. He further complicated his life with a tendency to fall in love. First there was Joan, a beautiful actress who he brought to live in the bohemian house he shared with writer friends in London's Notting Hill, and then there was Susan, a seductive young divorcee and mother with, for him, a beguiling touch of class. It is a common enough story, but told with uncommon and engaging humour, candour, affection and style. The London literary world of the 1950s, and some of its luminaries, are vividly brought to life, but they are incidental to what the book is really about, to the love story, which is both of the time and of all time, particular in its details but universal in the passions it describes, the joys, agonies, dilemmas and utter craziness of life-changing young love.