Mary And Mr Eliot Av Mary Trevelyan, Erica Wagner

<p><b>A rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot ¿ and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.</b><br><b><br>¿Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.¿ </b>Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year<br><br><b>¿Compelling ... compulsive.¿</b> Margaret Drabble, New Statesman<br><br>In 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic ¿ characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.<br><br>Trevelyan left a unique document ¿ of diaries, letters and pictures ¿ charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untol