Travels with My Aunt

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager whose life is bounded by dahlias and suburban routine, meets his elderly Aunt Augusta at his mother's funeral and is drawn into her itinerant world. What begins as a trip to Brighton expands into journeys across Europe and South America, involving smuggling, old lovers, and a daughter he did not know he had. Augusta, accompanied by her Sierra Leonean companion Wordsworth, treats borders and morals as inconveniences. Henry must decide whether to return to his quiet garden or accept a less respectable freedom. First published in 1969, the novel is a comic picaresque about duty, appetite, and late self-knowledge.

Bound in grey-green cloth colour blocked with a cover design. Cream endpapers. Light green slipcase.