The Sunlight on the Garden

Cod : 9781862079250

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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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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.

Specificatii

Anul publicarii	2007
ISBN	9781862079250
Format coperta	Paperback
Numar pagini	256
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	Biografie
Autor	Elizabeth Speller
De aceeasi editura	Granta Books
CM	60513
DS	BR/1#MEGA/0
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