This is from a lovely review by Allan Massie of A Particular Man, in the Scotsman:
‘It is a very fine period piece, an old black-and-white movie in words. One finds oneself mentally casting the characters: the young Dirk Bogarde for Starling, the very young Jean Simmons for Aida, Valerie Hobson for Clementine, Donald Sinden for her husband. There can of course be no actor for Eddie, though he is in a sense the most vital character in this thoroughly enjoyable novel’
It’s set me wondering who I would cast!
