80 Not Out: My autobiography by Patrick Moore, Contender Books, £17.99, ISBN 1843570483
AIRBORNE crockery – flying saucers to the rest of us – does not impress astronomer Patrick Moore. The wonders of the heavens, cricket and chess do. So also does the memory of the young woman he wanted to marry. Now 60 years after Lorna’s death during the Second World War he writes that he can occasionally pass half an hour without thinking of her.
This is as deeply into his personal life as Moore’s autobiography invites us. For the most part, in text as infectiously enthusiastic as its writer,…
