A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers Paperback Michael Holroyd

from lexmccall

This is a very bizarre biography of sorts. It seemed like the author changed the goal of the book between the first chapter and the last, and I'm still not certain what it was to begin with.The highlight (to me) is the bust of Medusa that Vita Sackville-West gives her lover Violet as a wedding gi...

from gayla.bassham

Interesting in parts, but strangely organized and told in a way that makes it very easy to lose track of who's who. Well-written, of course.

from ChrisSterry

I very much enjoyed the earlier part of this book, centring around the life and various loves of Ernest Beckett, 2nd Lord Grimthorpe. It was a glittering tangle of mysteries and infidelities. In these 'Google' days I was able to follow up references and was fascinated by the vignettes of fashiona...