James Baldwin and Britain

Giovanni's Room mentioned in relation to the Jeremy Thorpe scandal.

Source: The Guardian

Guardian, Nov 30, 1978. p.1

'Scott says: ‘I was seduced by Thorpe’.'

Report on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal in which:

‘Before the seduction, Mr Scott said, Mr Thorpe had given him the novel Giovanni’s Room by JB to read in bed. It describes all the way through how one man loves another man – in fact it’s a very beautiful story, he said’.