Angela Thirkell, born in 1890, was the Burne-Joneses’ granddaughter, J.M. Barrie’s goddaughter, a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin and the mother of Colin MacInnes of Absolute Beginners fame. John Collier painted her portrait and she was drawn by John Singer Sargent and Thea Proctor. Between 1931 and her death in 1961, Angela published more than thirty books in a variety of genres. She began with the acclaimed family memoir Three Houses and later settled on her amusing Barsetshire series, vaguely inspired by Anthony Trollope but set in the present day. This book tells the author’s story from her Kensington childhood to her two marriages and three sons, her decade in Australia where she wrote for magazines and newspapers and made radio broadcasts, followed by her return to London and her fortuitous meeting with a young publisher called Jamie Hamilton.

Author Anne Hall Published by Unicorn ISBN 9781913491246 EAN 9781913491246 Bic Code Cover Hardback