Book of Secrets
Autor: | Michael Holroyd |
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EAN: | 9781407063751 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 04.11.2010 |
Untertitel: | Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers |
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A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light, Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales, Eve Fairfax was Lord Grimthorpe's abandoned fiancee and sometime muse of Auguste Rodin, and the novelist Violet Trefusis was the lover of Vita Sackville-West. Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West's home at Knole, A Book of Secrets lucidly gives voice to fragile human connections.