A World of Other People (2013) is a novel by Australian author Steven Carroll.
Iris, a young civil servant, has volunteered to be an aircraft spotter on a building in Russell Square.
Late one night the pair witness the crash of a British Wellington bomber, and Eliot goes on to write his poem utilising this incident.
The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist... – "Bishop Blougram's Apology", Robert Browning.
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