The Foxglove Saga by Auberon Waugh [U.K. PAPERBACK] 1966 • Penguin

THE FOXGLOVE SAGA by AUBERON WAUGH

FIRST U.K. PAPERBACK PRINTING [1966] PENGUIN BOOKS

Book is in excellent condition.  

Cover shows some visible shelf / edge wear.  

Reads like new.  Orig. date of publication (1960) handwritten on title and half-title page. 

Like his father Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh is a natural subversive, subversive of complacency, pomposity and every kind of hypocrisy.

Auberon Waugh's first novel, The Foxglove Saga, is an imaginative and savage satire. Its hero, Martin Foxglove, is a golden boy. In the eyes of his devout and beautiful mother, Lady Foxglove, he can do no wrong. Despite her unceasing, protective care, Martin chooses a set of wholly unsuitable friends and abandons his Christian faith. He is hell bent on making a bid for freedom, and he holds all the cards, playing them one by one.