Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.

Richard Wells. Father Figure which appeared in 1972 and in which he described how he had tried to murder his alcoholic and abusive father caused a great uproar and several people asked for his prosecution. His book about spiritualism was not well received which disappointed him.

John Beverley Nichols (9 September 1898 Bower Ashton Bristol England – 15 September 1983 Kingston London England) was an author playwright journalist composer and public speaker.