{"product_id":"9781841155753_the-soul-of-indiscretion-tom-driberg-poet-philanderer-legislator-and-outlaw","title":"The Soul of Indiscretion Tom Driberg, Poet, Philanderer, Legislator and Outlaw","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancis Wheen’s brilliantly comic portrait of one of the 20th-century’s great characters, Tom Driberg: wit, parliamentarian, serial cottager, alleged communist spy and friend to the Kray brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are few people for whom marriage was so ill-suited yet well attended: at Tom Driberg’s were cabinet ministers and mobsters, Betjeman and Waugh, but it was Osbert Lancaster who commemorated the sheer extraordinariness of the occasion, and with it celebrated the social life of Driberg, and an era of Englishness now passed into history when the Brideshead generation sang the ‘Red Flag’:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriends of yours and friends of mine, Friends we always thought were dead\u003cbr\u003eFriends who toe the party line, Friends we know are off their head\u003cbr\u003eLabour friends who’re gratified Girl-friends, boy-friends, friends ambiguous\u003cbr\u003eAt being allowed to kiss the bride. Coloured friends from the Antiguas\u003cbr\u003eArtistic friends, a few of whom Friends ordained and friends unfrocked,\u003cbr\u003eAre rather keen to kiss the groom. Friends who leave us slightly shocked,\u003cbr\u003eFriends from Oxford, friends from pubs, All determined not to miss\u003cbr\u003eAnd even friends from Wormwood scrubs. So rare a spectacle as this!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis Wheen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896526721173,"sku":"9781841155753","price":26.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781841155753_514a4b8a-8e21-47a1-83aa-464c1bfc8c33.jpg?v=1776888254","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781841155753_the-soul-of-indiscretion-tom-driberg-poet-philanderer-legislator-and-outlaw","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}