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May Week Was in June
`Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.` Falling Towards England — the second volume of Clive James`s `Unreliable Memoirs` — was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that`s not the case. In `Unreliable Memoirs III`, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), and marrying (once) during May Week — which was not only in June but also two weeks long …`Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style` Spectator `He turns phrases, mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that make his pages truly shimmer …May Week Was In June is vintage James` Financial Times