Sugar And Rum - Hardcover

Benson is a 63-year-old writer who is losing command of his former skill, and directs his literary efforts towards a group of disparate lonely people to whom he teaches creative writing. He meets up with an old war comrade, a down-and-out victim of Thatcher's Britain, and things change. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Barry Unsworth is the author of many novels including "Mooncranker's Gift", "Stone Virgin" and "Pascali's Island", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1980.