Ephraim Hardcastle gives a mention to Paul Pickering’s new novel, Lucy, in the Daily Mail:
‘Novelist Paul Pickering hoped to pick Graham Greene’s brain when he rendezvoused at Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair while researching Lucy, his forthcoming black comedy about the Second World War spy network of the same name.
Alas Green, an expert on wartime spooks, was drunk and had become stuck in an old-fashioned brass lift. ‘It took several hours to hand-winch him to the nearest floor,’ says Pickering.
But was Greene, who died in 1991, helpful? ‘He said: “You have come to a dead end, my boy. A cul-de-sac, your arse in a bag.”’
