PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS

A Voyage Round My Father

‘One of Britain’s best-loved writers … [A] special blend of wit, humanity and nostalgic English melancholy’ Charles Spencer, The Times

‘A writer with a Dickensian gift for character and rich, robust humour’ Daily Mail

‘There are an enormous number of people whose lives he made happier and better by his writing’ Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

‘A great storyteller’ Robert McCrum, Observer

‘Only Shakespeare or Dickens could have done him justice in print; only they could have unsentimentally invoked his strain of English kindness and ebullient good nature’ Sebastian Faulks

‘One of Britain’s greatest life-enhancers … a superb example to us all’ Daily Telegraph