
Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past--guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their...

The noted biographer examines his own origins with a chronicle of his family, using his parents' accounts of their early lives as a starting point and elaborating with the results of his own explorations into the past.



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