Toynbee, Polly
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1946- ) UK investigative journalist and author; she is of the fourth generation of Toynbees to be involved in literature. Leftovers (1966) depicts with feeble verve the mixed destinies of a group of youths, survivors of a poisonous gas (see Poison) which has destroyed the rest of humanity. [JC]
Mary Louisa Toynbee
born Ventnor, Isle of Wight: 27 December 1946
works (selected)
- Leftovers (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966) [hb/Stephen Dwoskin]
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