It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

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.