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The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness Book
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Foyles
Inspired by the stories, re-inventions and half-truths in her family's past, the author sets out to trace the criss-crossing lines of her family history.
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Product Description
In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's great-granddaughter—became inspired by the stories, reinventions, and half-truths in her family's past to set her own record straight. This passionate and intriguing memoir brings to life the hopes and failures of four generations of a family filled with tales of wealth inherited and lost, sexual indiscretion, and closely guarded secrets. A recurrence of madness is also uncovered—Ada Curtis went mad not long after conceiving her children, and Elizabeth herself experienced a mental breakdown—exposing a troubling thread that links together decades of an intimate but troubled family.
- 1862079250
- 9781862079250
- Elizabeth Speller
- 2 April 2007
- Granta Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 256
- illustrated edition
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