A Disturbing Influence
Published on 16. July 2013
212 pages
978-0-571-30419-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Disturbing Influence was Julian Mitchell's second novel, first published in 1962.
The setting is the small, utterly English town of Cartersfield, where the very quietness of life causes trouble. The young and old are preoccupied alike with their own affairs, to the exclusion of the world. Tetchy schoolmaster Mr Drysdale sums it up: 'We don't care much for change in Cartersfield.' But change comes regardless, in the shape of a rootless young man who finds Cartersfield a fine place in which to recuperate after an illness, and a fine place, too, to indulge his appetite for destruction.
In a fascinating new preface to this reissue Julian Mitchell describes how he drew on his Cotswold childhood and the town of Cirencester in order to invent his fictional Cartersfield and populate it with a cast of characters.
The setting is the small, utterly English town of Cartersfield, where the very quietness of life causes trouble. The young and old are preoccupied alike with their own affairs, to the exclusion of the world. Tetchy schoolmaster Mr Drysdale sums it up: 'We don't care much for change in Cartersfield.' But change comes regardless, in the shape of a rootless young man who finds Cartersfield a fine place in which to recuperate after an illness, and a fine place, too, to indulge his appetite for destruction.
In a fascinating new preface to this reissue Julian Mitchell describes how he drew on his Cotswold childhood and the town of Cirencester in order to invent his fictional Cartersfield and populate it with a cast of characters.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,43 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-571-30419-6 (9780571304196)
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Person
Julian Mitchell (b. 1935), is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as the writer of the play and film Another Country, and as a screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for Inspector Morse. Born in Epping, Essex, and educated at Winchester College and Oxford, he would publish six novels in the 1960s (all of them since reissued in Faber Finds) including the prizewinning The White Father (1964), before shifting his focus to theatre - a move which has come to appear permanent.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface to the 2013 Edition
- PART ONE
- 1. The Vicar
- 2. The Schoolmaster
- 3. The Gilchrist Boy
- 4. The Brigadier
- 5. Ruth and Allen
- PART TWO
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- Copyright
