In one of this author's works, characters continually gossip about an "Embassy Richard," who laments his failure to crash a party in the social pages.
In one of this author's works, characters continually gossip about an "Embassy Richard," who laments his failure to crash a party in the social pages. He set that novel at a hotel gala, where fogged-in train passengers Julia and Amabel battle for Max Adey's affections. In another of his works, the shocking loss of a sapphire ring leads to the appearance of an investigator from an insurance company with the same initials as the Irish Republican Army. At the end of that novel by this author, Charley Raunce elopes with the maid Edith, abandoning his post at Mrs. Tennant's castle during World War II. This author of Party Going made the celebrated claim that he was inspired to write his most famous novel when he heard a butler wax nostalgic about "lying in bed on Sunday morning...eating buttered toast with cunty fingers." For 10 points, name this British author who wrote about Birmingham factory workers in his novel Living and about the servants of Kinalty Castle in his novel Loving.
In one of this author's works, characters continually gossip about an "Embassy Richard," who laments his failure to crash a party in the social pages.
Henry Green [or Henry Vincent Yorke]