The pretentious amateur painter Bertrand Welch cheats on Christine Callaghan in this novel, while Margaret Peel claims to have attempted suicide.
One character in this novel is based on Monica Jones, the occasional muse of Philip Larkin. Another character in this novel pretends to be the Evening Post reporter Alfred Beesley to avoid discussing an earlier incident where he set fire to his bedsheets while drunkenly smoking. The pretentious amateur painter Bertrand Welch cheats on Christine Callaghan in this novel, while Margaret Peel claims to have attempted suicide. For 10 points, name this novel which culminates in the title young lecturer's disastrous drunken lecture on ‘Merrie England', written by Kingsley Amis.
One character in this novel is based on Monica Jones, the occasional muse of Philip Larkin.
{Lucky Jim}