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“... shrieks of laughter. This condition was caused not by the poet himself but by the editor or Candida LycettGreen, his daughter, who seems to value nothing so much about her father as his ability to make people split their sides. She establishes that this was the way he first got on in the world. In his student ...”

“... his own self-satisfaction may have made him a less than exemplary father, although his daughter, Candida LycettGreen, clearly adored him – of his relationship with Cavendish, she has written, ‘I found the situation completely without conflict’ – and her excellent editions of Betjeman’s Letters make a ...”

“... awful letter as ‘it’, and who was entirely estranged from him after university. His daughter, Candida LycettGreen, enjoyed a much happier and more reciprocally loving relationship with her father, managing to deal tactfully with the two women in his life. Elizabeth Cavendish is present throughout these pages, but ...”

“... once in the Times; Christopher Booker in the Spectator; Malcolm Muggeridge in the Daily Telegraph; Candida Lycett-Green (who was in love with Ingrams at Oxford, speaks adoringly of him in this book, and once worked for the Eye) in the Standard. Nor are the paper’s smallest private squabbles denied space in the ...”