I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

Diana Mosley (one of the noted Mitford sisters) was his stepmother. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet (an English politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists) and Lady Cynthia Mosley a daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.