Pack My Bag is a marvelously quirky, clear-eyed memoir: a mother who shot at mangle wurzels (turnips) bowled across the lawn for her by the servants; the stately home packed with wounded World War I soldiers; the miseries of Eton, oddities of Oxford, and work in the family factory--the making of a brilliantly original novelist. -We have inherited the greatest orchestra, the English language, to conduct, - Green once wrote. -The means are there; things are going on in life all the time around us.- His use of language and his account of things that went on in his life inform this...