Making the Most of It

About this book

The third instalment of Bryan Magee's memoirs picks up where Growing Up in a War ends, with his going up to Oxford as an undergraduate after the Second World War. Through the love affairs, extraordinary friendships and the heady intellectual atmosphere of Oxford in the 1940s and '50s, the fame of the '60s and the political turmoil of Britain in the '80s, Making the Most of It is a fascinating, deeply personal journey through the 20th century. The first volume of his memoirs, Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood, won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.