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Simply indispensable.(Book Review)
Peter Simple's Domain, by Michael Wharton; New European Publications, 2003, about $45.
MICHAEL WHARTON, the London Daily Telegraph's "Peter Simple" columnist, closed the first edition of his beautiful, hilarious and moving autobiography, The Missing Will, with the following description of how he began to write The Column:
So, on New Year's Day, 1957, after a sleepless night of confused celebration, I sat down for the first time at my desk in the Daily Telegraph with one of the most appalling hangovers I have ever had in my life, and without a single idea in my head. I would have been incredulous, if not appalled, if I had been told ...
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