The Sunlight on the Garden: A Memoir of Love, War and Madness - Brossura

Speller, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 1862079250 ISBN 13: 9781862079250

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Elizabeth Speller is a poet and journalist who has written for the Independent on Sunday, Observer, and Woman's Journal. Her previous books include Athens: A New Guide, Following Hadrian, and Granta City Guides Rome.

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1862079250
• ISBN 13: 9781862079250
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256