Book by Seymour Miranda
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"A memoir that reads like a fairy tale gone wrong." -Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement, (named one of the best books of the year)--Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Miranda Seymour's wonderful memoir is a kind of posthumous conversation with her father. The ending is particularly powerful. What a gripping, poignant, dramatic, emotionally searing book she has written."--Joyce Carol Oates
"Few books capture the pain and laughter of upper-class English life as vividly as this one. It is a gem of a memoir, and I wish there were others like it."--Alexander Waugh, author of Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family
"A brilliantly crafted true story, In My Father's House gains depth and complexity from its willingness to explore the ethical dilemma of revealing painful family secrets. There is more to learn about human nature in this short memoir than in many novels two or three times its length."--Pat Barker, Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy
"An extremely well-told tale of an unexceptional man. . . . For the reader, it is a treat to catch an author at the height of her descriptive powers, exposing the agony of parental disappointment with honesty, sensitivity, and touches of brilliance."--The Guardian
"A rich and entertaining account of the upper classes in the early to mid-twentieth century. There are endless family tragedies, trysts and twists. . . . Needless to say, perfect for anyone who's ever obsessed about a beautiful house in the country."--Tatler
Beautifully written. . . . It's also the story of her father, and not the least of its accomplishments is that it instantly catapults him into the front rank of impossible and eccentric English parents. . . . Both comic . . . and immensely touching."--New York Times Book Review
"This is a brilliant, original, and intensely readable book. . . . I cannot recommend it too highly."--Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
"Disarming in its honesty, endlessly surprising and oddly touching."--Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator (A Book of the Year)
Traces the author's Nottinghamshire childhood in the shadow of her father's obsessive love for the country house where they lived, describing how the family experienced a radical shift years later when her aging father abruptly took to wearing leather and riding powerful motorbikes in the company of a young man. 20,000 first printing. Reprint.
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