True Grit
David Craig, 8 February 1996
Wainwright: The Biography
by Hunter Davies.
Joseph, 356 pp., £16.99, October 1995,0 7181 3909 7 Show More
by Hunter Davies.
Joseph, 356 pp., £16.99, October 1995,
“... she shooed them out of the house: ‘Everybody out,’ she cried, ‘he’s back!’ His son Peter shared Wainwright’s walks when he was a boy. Touching black and white snapshots show him neatly dressed, standing alone in a green trod between limestone walls, dutifully consulting a map. In his fifties he had to retire early, joints swollen with ... ”