The Fatal Englishman

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Compelling and stunningly written'' THE TIMES''Wildly exciting . . . a classic'' SPECTATOR''Flawless . . . poetic . . . superbly portrayed'' DAILY TELEGRAPH Three men. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''Compelling and stunningly written'' THE TIMES''Wildly exciting . . . a classic'' SPECTATOR''Flawless . . . poetic . . . superbly portrayed'' DAILY TELEGRAPH Three men. Three short, glittering lives. Young English painter Christopher Wood arrives in Paris in 1921 set on becoming the next great master. By day he studies; by night he attends parties with Picasso and Cocteau before paying too high a price for success. Richard Hilary, a confident if unprincipled Spitfire pilot, is suffering from terrible burns after being shot down. But the operations to restore him ha