Summary
A LION IN THE BEDROOM by Pat Cavendish O'Neill (Park Street Press, Pounds 12.99) Pat Cavendish O'Neill's mother was a hard act to follow. A legendary beauty and scion of Australia's Lindeman wine family, Enid Cameron got through rich husbands at such a rate two died within a year of marriage that she was dubbed 'Lady Killmore' by her friend Somerset Maugham. Raised in the 1930s among European and Hollywood aristocracy, Pat (right) grew into a timid young woman terrified of commitment. She finally found her match in Frank O'Neill, a philandering swimming champion whom she married twice, but it was another man who changed her life when he gave her an orphaned lion cub. The book ends as a celebration of nature, but it's the glamour from another age that makes this namedropping autobiography such an engaging read.
TWO LIVES by Vikram Seth (Little, Brown, Pounds 20) As an adolescent, novelist Vikram Seth lived with his great-uncle Shanti and great-aunt Henny, an unlikely couple who met when Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin and lodged with Henny's Jewish family.See the full content of this document
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Reunited in London, they wed after the war. This moving tribute shows how history's currents shape lives.
FAMILY MATTERS Pat C...See the full content of this document
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