David John Taylor

"Haunted by the ghosts of his fog-bound early life on the Norfolk coast, the church spires of Great Yarmouth and his father's sweet shop, Ted embarks on a mental journey full of unexpected twists and detours. What he discovers about himself and the eternally elusive figure of Upward turns out to have unexpected consequences for himself, Daniel and everyone else. Ranging in time and place from the rainswept Norfolk seafronts to 1960s Soho clubland, from bombs exploding in the Cyprus hills to Mosely's Daimler coursing though the East End, The Comedy Man is a mediation on post-war English life, confirming D.J. Taylor as one of the most imaginative novelists working in England today."--BOOK JACKET.