When Michael Holroyd published 'Basil Street Blues', in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to his own family, it was the beginning of a story rather than the end. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. 'Mosaic' is Michael's piecing together of these remarkable revelations: some of which are pleasant surprises, others more startling. A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, this is a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees.
Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, "Basil Street Blues "and "Mosaic". Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. His previous book, "A Strange Eventful History", won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2009. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
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