With the Bard in his blood ...

 
27 September 2013

Johnsons galore at Daunt Books in Marylebone last night for the launch of Turnaround Challenge, co-authored by Leo Johnson and Michael Blowfield. Poet Harry Eyres, who once taught the Mayor’s younger brother Leo at Eton, was encouraged by his literary progress.“I once saw Leo struggling with a question about Hamlet in an exam,” said Harry. “After half an hour he still had a blank piece of paper. I asked him if he was OK. He’d written ‘to answer, or not to answer.’”

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