'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction . . . John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood . . . to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe' - Peter Kemp in the Observer.
'Simply the best realistic story-teller of his generation' - Sebastian Faulks in the Independent