
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left...

A memoir by the acclaimed novelist The Wall Street Journalcalled "blessed with a sense of history, a feeling for place, an observant eye for detail, and an elegant no-frills style." In their particulars, the Lanchesters were not Every Family. The father was an international banker,...


