Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

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.