Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward but before the weather or the more suspicious trees have quite had the courage to follow them, and Kate and I are traveling north in a car crammed with food and books and old saucepans and spare pieces of furniture.

Frayn FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Following two years of National Service during which he learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists Frayn read Moral Sciences (Philosophy) at Emmanuel College Cambridge graduating in 1957.

Frayn FRSL (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. Michael J. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy.