Enjoyable but brief
Written: Oct 16 '00
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Pros: Very well written; very interesting
Cons: I wish that the book were longer.
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| letrouvere's Full Review: Strangers a Family Romance Books |
Novelist Emma Tennant has written about her family in this book described as a "literary memoir." Her grandfather Edward, the first Baron Glenconner, had an inherited family fortune derived from industry. His sister Margot was the wife of prime minister H. H. Asquith. Edward's wife Pamela was a great beauty who doted on her eldest son who died at an early age in the first World War. She subsequently became interested in spiritualism. After her husband's death, she married a man with whom whe had been romantically involved for a number of years. One of Edward and Pamela's sons was Stephen Tennant, a somewhat famous eccentric homosexual "aesthete."
Emma's father Christopher became Edward's heir after the eldest son's death. Christopher's first marriage to a woman also named Pamela was arranged by his mother and eventually ended in divorce after the birth of two sons. Emma, born in 1937, was one of the three children of her father's second marriage. One of Emma's half-brothers was at one time regarded as a suitor of the Princess Margaret.
In this enjoyable but brief book, Emma Tennant has written ten chapters, describing events in the family history. Four of the chapters describe events that occurred before she had been born. Mrs. Tennant writes like a novelist, providing good physical description, conversation, and thoughts of the various individuals. Her prose style is exceptionally good. The book was a great pleasure to read. I wish that the author had chosen to write at greater length about her family.
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