We think the world of you, paperback/j. r. ackerley

We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.

Ackerley as a fairy tale for adults.

Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry.

He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a sweetly easygoing nature.

When Johnny is sent to prison for committing a petty theft, Frank gets caught up in a struggle with Johnnys wife and parents for access to him.

Their struggle finds a strange focus in Johnnys dog--a beautiful but neglected German shepherd named Evie.

And it is she, in the end, who becomes the improbable and undeniable guardian of Franks inner world.

About author(s): J.

Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener .

His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip , and My Father and Myself , and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Furbank is the author of nine books, including biographies of Samuel Butler, Italo Svevo, and E.

Forster.