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I suppose there's got to be coincidence. It doesn't mean anything. But I happened to pick up "A Late Education" straight after reading Richard Adam's memoir and was immediately struck by both similarities and dissimilarities.
Adams was on himself, at pains to show how clever he was and at what level of society he belonged to - Oxford and all the rest were working class.
By comparison, Moorehead's a breath of fresh air. He's delightfully uncomplicated and it shows in his writing. He wants to be someones friend and puts himself out for it. As opposed to Adams, Moorehead admits to being something of a scamp. At least, as journalists he shows his profession up as being less than ethical. The two hoodwink their respective editors. They get stories in the time-honoured way, by subterfuge.
And woven through the story in this little gem of a book is another story - deeper, darker and at the same time more wonderful. It is life with out the corn. There are one or two perplexities. A pregnant wife appears from nowhere; relationships come and go; there are loose ends.
But that's life and this little book is life. Well worth reading, (he happens to be a rather famous Australian author)