WRITE TO US
Michael Wood’s celebration of the life and work of Ronald Blythe (Comment, March) reminded me what a wonderful treat it is to come upon Blythe’s writing for the first time. His book about the 1920s and 1930s, The Age of Illusion, imaginatively recreates an England that is very different to today but also, in some ways, recognisable – from the foibles of celebrities to the desire to follow the latest trends. As Blythe documents, for many at that time, that meant joining the [influential leftwing book group] the Left Book Club.