Duncan Fallowell

Backing Into the Light, by Colin Spencer – review

issue 22 June 2013
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  • Backing into Light: My Father’s Son

    Colin Spencer

    Quartet, pp. 251

Colin Spencer first came to my notice in the Swinging Sixties when a fellow undergraduate alerted me to his larky romp Poppy, Mandragora and the New Sex, the first novel since Woolf’s Orlando to treat of transexuality. It was published in
1966, two years before Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge, and I associated Spencer with the ‘sexual allsorts’ group around the publisher Anthony Blond at that time.

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