![]() ![]() Then came Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2001) and England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), both of which are atmospheric and at times ghostly cultural histories of deep Albion. His non-fiction output has ranged widely in subject matter, beginning with Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) about the "brightest" of the 1920s Bright Young People, an aristocratic lover of Siegfried Sassoon who spent 17 years in "decorative reclusion" after the second world war. ![]() I thought: why have I bothered?"įor a long time it seemed Hoare's career was anything but planned. It's really remarkable – the whole of my career planned out at the age of 14. The whale I'd painted in poster paint using my mother's clear nail varnish to make it look slicker and shiny as if it had just come out of the water. "Alongside the blank verse and stream of consciousness lyrics were doodles: pictures of whales, 70s glam-rock stars, 1920s decadent figures – all of my obsessions. He was surprised to find a blue notebook that had belonged to his father, who worked as a cableman all his life, but had been commandeered by the teenaged Philip. ![]() A couple of years ago Philip Hoare, now 55, found himself digging around in a sideboard in the semi-detached Southampton house in which he grew up. ![]()
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