Mental note: Don't live a controversial life if you intend to write an autobiography or memoirs and don't want to upset those close to you. After finishing Muggeridge: The Biography, this is the great lesson I've learned.
Also, for an even read, don't frontload your life with debauchery. Spread that stuff out.
Seriously, though, the last three chapters of Ingrams' biography are in stark contrast to the book's entire first half.
Where young Muggeridge is a provocative and controversial figure, the elder Malcolm is a a man who finally finds the peace he has spent his life searching for. This arc makes for a fine life, and its ending could easily scare readers into action, but it also makes for a somewhat dull read.
However, this tedium only comes through in the book's narrative. Ingrams' style and prose stay strong throughout and help to keep a newcomer to Muggeridge interested through to the end.
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