Time to Be in Earnest 
Subtitle: A Fragment of Autobiography
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
Published: 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780676973440
Subjects: Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: I am writing this sitting in an almost empty first-class compartment of the 3:32 train from Newton Abbot to Paddington, and staring out at the red Devon countryside, now blurred and seeming to dissolve in rain; even the eagerly awaited stretch of coast at Dawlish and Teignmouth failed in its usual magic.