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While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior
Kirkus Reviews
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Elizabeth Jane Howard
A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
Cyril Connolly
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply
English PEN
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Elizabeth Jane Howard
A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
Cyril Connolly