Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Vintage Books
First published:1951Setting: London, UK
Read in October 2013
My Rating ★★★★★ 4.5
My Waterstones Review
On a wet January evening in 1946 Maurice Bendrix, an author, has a chance meeting with Henry Miles a senior civil servant with the Ministry of Pensions and later Home Security. He hates Henry, and his wife Sarah, despite a tempestuous affair which started two years earlier and was suddenly ended by Sarah. But Henry has a problem and is looking for a friend, he suspects Sarah of having an affair.
There are parallels here between Graham and his affair with Lady Catherine Walston. It is a short story, just 160 pages long, of obsession and jealousy, love and hate, and Catholicism. It spawned two films (1955 and 1999) and an opera. But the depth of love was unknown until 2008 when two small volumes of love poems, After Two Years, and For Christmas, were put up for sale, six poems written in Graham Greene's own hand. Telegraph article by Chris Hastings
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