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Title: A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill

Author: Storm Jameson

Narrator: Fleet Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

It is a seductive world in which the action of this astonishing audiobook unfolds: cultivated, privileged, secure, the close-knit world of an Oxford college, epitomized by the Master and the Master's house, a haven of good taste, intelligence and aristocratic nonconformity. With one or two exceptions, its inhabitants would - if they were to thank God for anything - thank Him that they are not as other men. Yet these are not stonyhearted snobs; they have accepted an outsider - Nevil Rigden, product of a city slum. He is a friend to the great Thomas Paget, husband to Paget's sister, and he stands high in the Master's favour. Bemused by elegance, urbanity and intellect, we discover with shock and then with horror the web of abomination being spun, inexorably, fatally, within this charmed - and charming - circle. No one can listen to this story unshaken.

Storm Jameson (1891- 1986) born to a North Yorkshire family of shipbuilders. Jameson's fiery mother, who bore three girls, encouraged Storm (christened Margaret Storm) to pursue an academic education. After being taught privately and at Scarborough municipal school she won one of three county scholarships which enabled her to read English Literature at Leeds University. She then went on to complete an MA in European Drama at King's College London. During her career Jameson wrote forty-five novels, numerous pamphlets, essays, and reviews, in an effort to make money. Her personal life suffered, and her first marriage to schoolmaster Charles Douglas Clarke was an unhappy one. After they divorced in 1925, Jameson went on to marry Guy Chapman, a fellow author, and remained with him despite her apparent rejection of normal domestic life. Storm Jameson was always politically active, helping to publish a Marxist journal in the British section of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers in 1934 and attending anti-fascist rallies.

Members Reviews:

It's positively criminal this book has been relegated to oblivion

I am not exaggerating when I call this book a masterpiece. Darkness at Noon explored to a large degree the Communist intellectual's mind during Stalin's show trials. When it came out, the French Communist party tried unsuccessfully to block it. The British Communists were more successful with this book by Jameson. Koestler's work went just so far. This book takes up the slack and reveals the cold blooded, bitchy, self- righteous character of the British Marxist intellectual.

Without giving away too much of the plot, the story is set in Oxford, where one of the professors up for promotion suddenly reveals himself to have been a Marxist. This revelation is caused by an action which the Party has deemed essential, but which has filled him with revulsion. Furthermore, he follows it up by publishing an article stating that certain acts are elementary immoral and cannot be brushed aside by simply using the usual cliches of the Left. Instantly, the rug is pulled out from under his feet and things go from bad to worse.

Post-War Oxford laid bare by the razor tipped pen of a towering talent.

Storm Jameson is an author who has passed into obscurity like James Gould Cozzens, and John Marquand (to name two American authors). This is a minor tragedy. In this novel, a thinly disguised autobiographic, she dissects the post-war infighting and pettiness of the British university system, particularly Oxford.