Letting Go

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust sex ‎drugs haute couture Pop Art theatre opera ballet and photography. He ‎transports us from a Blackpool beach in the 1950s to the Bal Proust in ‎‎1971 at the château de Ferrières from Marrakech with Yves Saint-Laurent ‎Pierre Bergé and the Majorelle gardens to downtown Manhattan markers in ‎the gripping Odyssey and Proustian quest of Dolly and Johnny in their ‎attempts to rediscover each other after being separated. ‎</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alan Halliday is an engaging raconteur and this book with its rich ‎repertoire of various accents and voices lends itself to a perfect audiobook.‎</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Review by Cynthia Gamble a noted authority on Marcel Proust and ‎author most recently of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marie Nordlinger la muse anglaise de Marcel ‎Proust</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2024)‎</span></p><p> </p><p><br></p>