He served in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, then spent four years reading English at the University of Bristol (1919–1923),[1] from which he apparently did not graduate; following this, he entered the literary world of London.
The typescript was rejected by all the publishers it was shown to and only after Edwards' death was it taken up by Hamish Hamilton who arranged for John Fowles to write an introduction.
In the late 1920s and '30s Edwards had been regarded as a writer and intellectual of great promise, one who might fill the shoes of D. H. Lawrence, whose biography Cape commissioned him to write.
Eventually his friends Murry, John Stewart Collis and Stephen Potter gave up their hopes in him.
In September 2008 Chaney and Jane Mosse unveiled Guernsey's first blue plaque on Edwards's father's house.