Ramsay had begged Nellie to send him reading material but it was Niven who obliged, sending out crates of books for him, everything from the Mabinogion to Virginia Woolf. When he returned to English shores a few months ago, Ramsay’s brain was so infected with words that he was almost overcome by the insistent need to purge them. A novel, he decided, he would write a novel! (A great one, obviously.)
