Posh misery memoir Ivo Dawnay An Unanchored Heart By Rory Knight Bruce Mount Orleans Press £20 Rory Knight Bruce was one of Fleet Street’s characters in the 1980s and ’90s: a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime. A Puck-like, Will-o’-the-wisp Withnail in everyone’s peripheral vision, he seemed to appear from nowhere, leaving a trail of larger-than-life pranks, triumphs and more frequent disasters, which fuelled drunken gossip to everyone’s amusement. For a period, he edited that prep-school of posh journos, the Evening Standard’s Londoner’s Diary, from where he sallied forth nightly to terrorise society and browbeat complainants. And then he was gone – rumoured to have become a Master of Foxhounds somewhere in the great blood-drenched Valhalla that is the British countryside. Twenty pages into An Unanchored Heart – a suitably 1930s-ish-sounding title, being both dated and poignant – the reader can admire the pace and vigour of his...
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