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'An insightful, fictionalised slice of literary history...'áAmazon Reviewer.'The extraordinary life of Harry Clifton'áLancashire Life'Explore the tumultuous world of Harry Clifton, a figure whose life story reads like a novel, filled with grandeur, crisis, and heartbreak...'áExplaining History PodcastEvelyn Waugh described the Cliftons of Lytham Hall as 'all tearing mad' during visits in the 1930s. Join him and Harry Clifton on a journey of love, friendship, excess and liberation as they fight to be free of the sexual, dynastic and religious expectations the world demands of them.With a mix of fact and fiction, join us for this journey to a land that might-have-been as we meet the eccentric Harry Clifton and his family, and his adventures with friends Bertie Pemberton-Billing and Evelyn Waugh at Oxford in the 1920s, whilst an undergraduate at Christ Church. Discover their association with the Hypocrites Club and the notorious private drinking clubs that revelled in hedonism and sexual liberation. Harry and Evelyn were both eventually sent down from Oxford without degrees.áHarryâÇÖs irresponsible decisions, after the death of his father, and his wanton disregard for his familyâÇÖs heritage and reputation, and his obsession with the occult and mysticism, that led him to rely on the White Goddess and the Ghost of Hollywood to guide him with disasterous financial decisions. His darker side inspired by his favourite author and poet Edgar Alan Poe.áFrom an equally disastrous marriage to purchasing Imperial Faberge Eggs, private suites at the Ritz Hotel and Claridges, and the squandering of eye-watering amounts of money, a doomed foray into film producing with Brian Desmond Hurst, his journey continues through the 1930s as his reckless behaviour threatens hundreds of years of his familyâÇÖs reputation and heritage.áOn the eve of WW2 it all comes crashing down. Evelyn Waugh decides to separate from his friend but do the seeds of that friendship with Harry influence WaughâÇÖs character Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited? His most famous novel was finally published in 1945 much to the displeasure of HarryâÇÖs widowed mother Violet Clifton. She never spoke to Waugh again.á