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A Book of Secrets
Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
By Holroyd, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-37411-558-6
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on April 15, 2011
In his preface Holroyd calls this the "third and final volume in a series that began with Basil Street Blues." That book was a memoir of his youth; this one is more biographical and labyrinthine. Eminent biographer Holroyd (Lytton Strachey: The New Biography) inserts himself into the book as he describes his investigative path in exploring the life of Ernest Beckett, second Baron Grimthorpe, and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
