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The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother And Me by Sofka Zinovieff (Hardcover, 2014)

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Author:Zinovieff, Sofka. After Victoria was born the marriage soon foundered (Jennifer later married Alan Ross). Her book about Faringdon and its people is marvellously witty and full of insight, bringing to life a vanished world and the almost fantastical people who lived in it.

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Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves - and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete's paradise, where exquisite food was served to many of the great minds, beauties and wits of the day. Since the early thirties his companion there was Robert Heber-Percy, twenty-eight years his junior, wildly physical, unscholarly, a hothead who rode naked through the grounds, loved cocktails and nightclubs, and was known to all as the Mad Boy. If the two men made an unlikely couple, at a time when homosexuality was illegal, the addition to the household in 1942 of a pregnant Jennifer Fry, a high society girl known to be 'fast', as Robert's wife was simply astounding. After Victoria was born the marriage soon foundered (Jennifer later married Alan Ross). Berners died in 1950, leaving Robert in charge of Faringdon, aided by a ferocious Austrian housekeeper who strove to keep the same culinary standards in a more austere age. This was the world Sofka Zinovieff, Victoria's daughter, a typical child of the sixties, first encountered at the age of seventeen. Eight years later, to her astonishment, Robert told her he was leaving her Faringdon House. Her book about Faringdon and its people is marvellously witty and full of insight, bringing to life a vanished world and the almost fantastical people who lived in it.

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224096591
eBay Product ID (ePID)209496600

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Book TitleThe Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me
AuthorSofka Zinovieff
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages448 Pages

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Item Height240mm
Item Width185mm
Item Weight1400 g

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Title_AuthorSofka Zinovieff
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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  • by ernestjune
    09 Nov, 2022

    Fascinating biography beautifully illustrated.

    I live a few metres from Faringdon House where most of this account took place and I have had a copy of this magnificent book for years. I bought this one for a friend at an amazing price, and she is loving every word, every photo. The author, Sofka Zinovieff, is “me” in the title, and I just love her work. It flows easily and draws in the reader

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  • by tracwalter_7
    07 May, 2020

    Fabulous book!

    A very beautiful book with lots of interesting photos and very well written and amusing at times. I would happily recommend this book to anyone.

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