Down There On a Visit Christine Poulson and the corrosive effects of

and the corrosive effects of poverty and addiction to secure a sense of well-being for themselves and for those they love

John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted

a man whose activities in the Second World War makes the current generation of killers look like amateurs

tumble-down houses

This historical novel follows the fortunes of Augustine through the inter-war years and also charts Hitler's rise to power as he recovers from the 1923 Munich putsch

Down There On a Visit Christine Poulson and the corrosive effects ofBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel.