Mary and Mr EliotMary Trevelyan Erica WagnerMainLabel: Faber & FaberDescription: 'Completely fascinating revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' MARGARET DRABBLE NEW STATESMANT.S. Eliot and Mary Trevelyan shared a close friendship - twenty-five years in each others' company: playing records; going for drives with Mary at the wheel; sharing dinners Eliot cooked in his rolled-up shirtsleeves; and attending church together. While Mary hoped it might become something more the poet's heart was elsewhere. Using a collection of diaries letters and pictures Mary left behind Erica Wagner brings together this story of an unusual friendship in this intimate portrait of T.S. Eliot and Mary a formidable woman thus far sidelined by literary history.
