Young Readers Suffering From Status Anxiety ; the Londoner's Diary

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YOUNG READERS suffering from status anxiety should not read on. Last night 24-year-old Ivo Stourton celebrated the launch of his first novel, The Night Climbers, in Notting Hill with family and friends. The Eton and Cambridge educated son of Today programme presenter Edward, Stourton is being hailed as "a strikingly gifted new writer", whose style echoes Donna Tartt. The book, about a circle of exuberant Cambridge students who form a private club the Night Climbers

has been described as "an amazingly accomplished debut" by The Observer. Yet he is modest about his achievement: "I just wrote whenever I had the time in between working as a tutor," he tells me from his lofty outlook at over 6'5" tall. "I also needed the money, so that made me get on and write it." But now that he has cracked the literary world, Stourton is already moving on to more lucrative things.

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Young Readers Suffering From Status Anxiety ; the Londoner's Diary

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