from The Guardian
In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book.
“The circumstances surrounding the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four make a haunting narrative that helps to explain the bleakness of Orwell’s dystopia. Here was an English writer, desperately sick, grappling alone with the demons of his imagination in a bleak Scottish outpost in the desolate aftermath of the second world war.”
