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 *

Jean Findlay was born in Edinburgh and studied Law and French at Edinburgh University, then theatre in Cracow with Tadeusz Kantor. She ran a theatre company, writing and producing plays in Berlin, Bonn, Dublin, Rotterdam, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has written for the Scotsman, the Independent, Time Out and Performance magazine and lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children. She is the great-great-niece of C K Scott Moncrieff.

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