Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own
family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But
an investigation into the Holroyd past guided by old photograph
albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent
accounts of their lives gradually yields clues to a constellation
of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from
English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on
the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated
longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wry,
candid memoir, "part multiple biography, part autobiography, but
principally an oblique investigation of the biographer's art" (New
York Times Book Review). " A] perfect example of a memoir that
entrances me." Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe " O]ne of
the few biographers] who can convey what makes ordinary as well as
extraordinary mortals live in our minds." Los Angeles Times"
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