D. J. Taylor

My father, the tyrant: Robert Edric describes a brutal upbringing

There has never been a suggestion in Edric’s many novels of what he suffered, but this memoir of parental bullying is a small masterpiece

The 1960s Sheffield of Robert Edric’s childhood. Credit: Alamy 
issue 06 March 2021
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