The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness Book

In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family now obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, inspired by the stories, re-inventions, and half-truths in her family's past, Elizabeth Speller—Gerald and Ada's great-granddaughter—sets out to trace the criss-crossing lines of their history. As she herself recovered from a mental breakdown, she began to wonder if that history offered any explanation of what had happened in her own life: What made my grandmother mad? What made us mad? The search resulted in a tale bringing vividly to life the passions and hopes of four generations, amid tales of wealth inherited and lost, eccentricity, sexual indiscretion, and madness. Read More

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  • 1862078297
  • 9781862078291
  • Elizabeth Speller
  • 3 April 2006
  • Granta Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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