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A Book of Secrets
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407063751
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

A Book of Secrets

Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

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15 Nov 2010
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2 Jan 2012
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A masterfully atmospheric book of hidden lives and family secrets from the celebrated biographer

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 fiancée 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.
  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407063751
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Michael Holroyd

Besides the Lives of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. His most recent book, A Strange Eventful History, winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, was a biography of theatre greats Ellen Terry and Henry Irving and their children. He has been president of the Royal Society of Literature and is the first non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
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Also by Michael Holroyd

On Wheels
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
A Strange Eventful History
Augustus John
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