The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War And Madness - Rilegato

Speller, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 1862078297 ISBN 13: 9781862078291

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2006

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1862078297
• ISBN 13: 9781862078291
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256