Sonata for Second Fiddle
Penelope Fitzgerald, 7 October 1982
A Half of Two Lives: A Personal Memoir
by Alison Waley.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £10.95, September 1982,0 297 78156 1 Show More
by Alison Waley.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £10.95, September 1982,
“... themselves from under the closed lids; but – he was asleep. The writer, the faithful lover, is Alison Waley – at that time, 1955, Alison Grant Robertson. The man whose tears she wiped away with a sock was the remote and fastidious Oriental scholar, Arthur Waley. At the time of ... ”
