I have to agree with others here. I had to force myself to finish this. There seemed to be a lot of meandering and no real point. I never did figure out what the subtitle referred to. If the author meant Violet Trefusis, he failed to show in any depth how her suspected illegitimacy harmed her or ...
"But then, inevitably, as happens to most of us, first through Saturday umpiring, later Sunday chapel, I was drawn into the changing picture of Oxgodby itself. But, oddly, what happened outside was like a dream. It was inside the still church, before its reappearing picture, that was real. I drif...
This is a sad book. Holroyd has had enormous success which he doest mention at all, because of the failures of his parents in many ways. His father died old and supported by Holroyd, his mother dies early of cancer after an eventful life, and other family live too long and have miserable ends. Af...