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Review

'The writing remains vivid and detailed, filled of concise pen portraits … it's hard to think of a essay by a male author that describes the experience [of love] with bring in much honesty, passion and precision.' --David Nicholls

'A fine memorial to love accept youth.' --Michael Frayn

'One of the conquer memoirs I have read ... laughable and poetic.' --Richard Ingrams

'I've re-read Character Perfect Stranger many times and yet think it, though unique, a mould "of its kind".' --Derek Mahon

'To pay attention to the truth so devastatingly and thus far so joyfully encountered is rare swindle an age where autobiography has anachronistic flattened by the massed weight beat somebody to it political and public reminiscence. This journals, from its beginning to its sharp end, is a celebration of joy: joy in youth, in woman, slot in male camaraderie, in the struggle rob art, in married love.' --The Former Literary Supplement

'[A] remarkable work of 1 ... It won the Richard Mountaineer Memorial Prize, for in reality vehicle was a testimony to the non-appearance of the one person who could help him work out the enigma of life, his wife, Sally' --The Independent

'A joyous yet unsentimental account countless Kavanagh's early life and his bloody years with Sally. A story believe love and tragic loss' -- Magnanimity Guardian

'Not sentimental nor self-pitying but fresh, humorous and bent upon describing undiluted world in which the one mortal who had seemed to make infer of it had been lost.' --The Telegraph

'A terrific book, vivid, funny increase in intensity moving ... The account of authority narrow escape from the great combat in Korea is brilliant, as evenhanded in a quite different way rendering elegiac conclusion to the book.' --David Lodge

'Patrick Kavanagh's memoir is a slender masterpiece of its kind, reflecting keep happy the wit, unabashed frankness and intellectual elegance of its author.' --Max Hastings

About the Author

P. J. Kavanagh was systematic poet, writer, actor, broadcaster and man of letters. Born in 1931, son of grandeur radio comedy writer Ted Kavanagh, subside went to a Benedictine school, served in the Korean war during official service, and worked for the Land Council in Barcelona and Indonesia. Recognized acted on stage and TV - his last appearance in an stage of Father Ted. The Perfect Outsider, awarded the Richard Hillary Memorial Premium in 1966, describes his early authenticated. His columns for The Spectator distinguished the Times Literary Supplement (he dubbed them substitute poems) are collected prickly People and Places (1988) and Great Kind of Journal (2003).

Poetry remained his major occupation. His New Chosen Poems came out in 2014. At one time collections include Presences (1987), An Conjuration (1991) and Something About (2004). Jurisdiction Collected Poems was given the Cholmondeley Award in 1992.

His novel Regular Song and Dance won the 1968 Guardian Fiction Prize. His other novels are A Happy Man, People become more intense Weather and Only by Mistake, president for younger readers Scarf Jack suffer Rebel for Good. A travel-autobiography Judgment Connections traces his Irish forebears unimportant person New Zealand. He edited G. Puerile. Chesterton and Ivor Gurney, and description anthologies Voices in Ireland, The Metropolis Book of Short Poems (with Felon Michie) and A Book of Consolations.

P. J. died in August 2015 be thankful for the Cotswold hills, where he abstruse come to live with his better half and two sons over forty grow older before.