Lying Awake

Catherine Carswell’s autobiographical reminiscences occupied her for most of her life. Her full range of interests and contacts, from D.H. Lawrence through successive Soviet ambassadors, to Lady Tweedsmuir, are recounted throughout the book. Her intellectual interests ranged from Herzen to Dickens, from T.S. Eliot to Rabelais, from Boccaccio to Burns. Catherine moved in the leading literary circles of her time - both inspired and discouraged by D.H. Lawrence, who remained to his death one of her closest friends. Catherine Carswell is the author of Life of Robert Burns and The Camomile .