It looks a bit rough wi' lyin' out thoose raggy neets.

Working women are stressing out their male partners by discussing business problems around the family hearthside.

The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.

Among writers he was a man without pareil.