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COPYRIGHT 2002 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
ECHOING VOICES: MORE MEMORIES OF A COUNTRY HOUSE SNOOPER by John Harris John Murray, 17.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 239, ISBN 0719564832
The picture of a maverick which emerges from this book is ever more strongly drawn. In this sequel to his autobiographical No Voice from the Hall, published in 1998, John Harris takes us forwards, backwards and sideways around his earlier account. There is less fishing, and the kindly figure of `Snozzle', his Uncle Sid, the upholsterer-cum-antique dealer who `took on' Harris in his teenage years, appears only fleetingly. The anecdotes are more circumstantial, the edited and neatly dovetailed snapshots of the conservative upbringing against which Harris revolted, and subsequent revolts against authority in...
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