Reid acted as mentor to Gilbert, who had literary aspirations, and ultimately depicted an idealized version of their relationship in the novel Brian Westby (1934). Reid’s numerous novels reflect his lifelong fascination with teenage boys, and he was quickly drawn to Gilbert the two commenced a sometimes turbulent friendship that lasted until Reid’s death in 1947. In 1931, just before his nineteenth birthday, Gilbert met novelist Forrest Reid, by that time in his mid-fifties. He returned to Belfast, where he worked briefly as a journalist before joining his father’s tea and seed business. He was sent to England for boarding school from age 10 to 13 and afterwards to a Scottish public school, which he left without passing any exams or obtaining a leaving certificate. Stephen Gilbert (1912-2010) was born in Newcastle, Co.
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