“[It] is an absurd distraction from Graham’s work. It is an utter misrepresentation. Norman does Graham a great disservice with his obsession with gossip … disappointing in someone who professes to be an academic, and a dereliction of Norman Sherry’s duty as a biographer. The biography is not only vulgar and poorly written but extremely dull. Norman Sherry is very like Inspector Clouseau. He doesn’t understand anything, he gets many things wrong – he is a fantasist.”
- ‘You’re like Inspector Clouseau, vulgar, wrong. A fantasist obsessed with sex’. ‘Bloody nonsense. Grow up’: As the world of literature met yesterday to celebrate Graham Greene’s centenary, his surviving relatives and biographer traded bitter insults. Anthony Barnes and Andrew Gumbel report
