Letting Go

Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust, sex, ‎drugs, haute couture, Pop Art, theatre, opera, ballet and photography. He ‎transports us from a Blackpool beach in the 1950s to the Bal Proust in ‎‎1971 at the château de Ferrières, from Marrakech with Yves Saint-Laurent, ‎Pierre Bergé and the Majorelle gardens to downtown Manhattan, markers in ‎the gripping Odyssey and Proustian quest of Dolly and Johnny in their ‎attempts to rediscover each other after being separated. ‎Alan Halliday is an engaging raconteur, and this book, with its rich ‎repertoire of various accents and voices, lends itself to a perfect audiobook.‎Review by Cynthia Gamble, a noted authority on Marcel Proust, and ‎author, most recently, of Marie Nordlinger, la muse anglaise de Marcel ‎Proust (2024)‎