Chris Fletcher

Blitzed on Benzedrine

Chris Fletcher wonders whether the couple who took over Kelmscott Manor during the 1940s noticed there was a war going on at all: they were too blitzed on sex, booze and Benzedrine to care

  • The Starlight Years: Love and War at Kelmscott Manor, 1940-1948

    Joscelyn Godwin

    The Dovecote Press, pp. 194

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