One of the great books. The memoirs of a girl of 20 or so, based frankly on Sybille's own life, who lives on a small estate in Baden, then shuttles between the south of France, London, Berlin, and various country cottages in England, all the time avoiding formal education and most of the time lo...
Wow! This book was just so incredibly disappointing. Probably because the abstract promises more than the book is about – clearly a case of misleading marketing. I wanted to read it because I have just recently found out about this writer, who grew up about 50 km from where I am from. So I was in...