Chasing Lost Time

A first-rate, playful, moving biography -- Roger Lewis * The Times * Elegant and even-handed biography * Wall Street Journal * In a hugely readable and well researched biography, Findlay paints a triple portrait of her ancestor – as a devoted family man, homosexual Catholic and cultivated spy – who turns out to be a far more engaging and fascinating subject than one would ever have imagined -- David Robinson * Scotsman * The final revelation of Findlay’s book is that Moncrieff was far from the perfect Proustian of our imagination. Moncrieff is a lot more fun to be around than his careful sentences might suggest -- Adam Gopnik * The New Yorker * A fascinating read * The Economist * Passionate, risk-taking, aesthetically conservative: a compendious biography of Proust's great interpreter reveals the paradoxes of his varied career -- DJ Taylor * Guardian * Jean Findlay... has at last given us a full portrait of this admirable man * New York Review of Books * Findlay assembles a fascinating man from a strange collection of fragments with style, fittingly enough, and wit -- Ian Bell * Herald Scotland * Eager, conscientious, affectionate… Endearingly old-fashioned in its family piety, protective partisanship and unembellished decency… A work that murmurs and sidles in a self-effacing tone… A likeable, informative and poignant book that Findlay is uniquely suited to have written -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Literary Review * There is a tenderness with which [Findlay] cherishes even the most inconsequential events… Fitting tribute -- Jonathan Beckman * Daily Telegraph *