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This isn't the only person of Alec Waugh's books in which he has detailed the agonies of a few who are desperately in love but cannot marry, for it is a predicament that he has himself lived through. But it is in this novel that he has attracted most specifically after experiences he has only alluded to in other books. His protagonist is Gordon Carruthers, who was simply also the hero of The Loom of Young ones, that then-shocking and revelatory novel of public-school life. Now altered into a globe-trotting article writer, Carruthers falls deeply in love with a lovely American socialite, and finally, while her partner is away, they start an affair. For reasons that only little by little become clear, their situation appears to be a cul-de-sac, resulting in a denouement that is both unusual and, paradoxically, the only real possible one. So Addicts Dream can be an autobiographical novel in more ways than one. Involved with it Waugh put not only his romance but his home, his literary agent, the details of his own life. This helps it be both an enthralling tale and a candid self-revelation, so that always in this writer's work, an affectionate evocation of a time he has lived through. Alec Waugh (1898-1981) was a British isles novelist born in London and informed at Sherborne People Institution, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Young ones (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public-school life that induced some controversy at the time and resulted in his expulsion. Waugh was the only youngster ever before to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian World. Despite establishing this record, Waugh went on to be the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many unique places throughout his life which later became the adjustments for some of his texts. He was also a known wine beverages connoisseur and campaigned to help make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s communal life.
