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Now for the 'secret orchard' part of my story. For many years I had a mistress and she presented me with twin girls ten years ago and another girl eight years ago... thus wrote Roger Ackerley in a letter opened by his son J.R. Ackerley on his father's death. In this account his daughter, Diana, attempts to solve the mysteries that surrounded her childhood, her beautiful, bewildering mother, Muriel Perry and Uncle, the shadowy figure who dominated the hidden world in which she grew up. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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There are an insight into that period, and obviously one I never personally encountered. It is also probably why I also enjoy Golden Age Crime novels.
I had not heard of the people populating this book, but apparently Roger Ackerley (of the title, and known for a while as the banana king of London, a successful grocer/importer) and J R Ackerley (a well known writer and editor, who joined the BBC in its early days).
The author (Diana) was independently famous, particularly for her charitable work during WW2.
Roger maintained 2 families, each of which had children. The secret orchard was from Diana's perspective, the other family. Diana's mother left them early on, but returned some 10 years later. That return was not successful.
The book is described in a helpful preface as an example of a 'misery memoir', and certainly a lot of sadness. The preface also mentions that, in 1968, JR wrote My father and Myself, as to which this book (1975) might be regarded as a complementary memoir.
I do not think I will go out of my way to find/read that earlier memoir, believing that I have sufficient as to this/these families, but I am glad I have read this memoir.
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