Patrick Leigh Fermor

Life & Society

Sex O'Clock High

• 20 March 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 March 1963. The author of The Traveller's Tree and A Time of Gifts, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor is the doyen of British travel writers. He is also the central figure of W Stanley Moss's Ill Met By Moonlight, a true tale of derring-do in wartime Crete. Now aged 91, he has written only rarely for the New Statesman: perhaps this item taxed the sub-editors' patience too far.