The Field

A life story and other glories

Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

N Wilson is nothing short of a genius, a searing journalist, a prolific biographer, a historian and a novelist. Now he has turned his talents upon himself in an autobiography of his early life. The result? Devastating honesty about his brutal and sadistic prep school, a first marriage aged 20 while at Oxford to the Shakespearean scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones, and meetings with the famous

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