Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017) was a British novelist and biographer, best known for his novels Accident (1965, adapted into a film by Joseph Losey with Harold Pinter's screenplay), Impossible Object (1968, shortlisted for the inaugural Booker Prize), and Hopeful Monsters (1990, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award), as well as biographies of his father, fascist leader Oswald Mosley. The eldest son of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon, he served in WWII, earning the Military Cross, and succeeded as 3rd Baron Ravensdale. Royal Society of Literature