Sam Leith Sam Leith

Goats and donkeys

Sam Leith on the new book from Ffion Hague

issue 14 June 2008

The Goat, they called him; and goatish he certainly was. He was stubborn, self-willed, exceptionally adept at climbing upward over rocky ground — and then there was the other thing, the thing that gives rise to this book. If there was a single force in his life to rival David Lloyd George’s ambition it was his sex drive.

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