by Lucy Wadham
eccentric doesn't begin to describe the author's family and their stories about how they grew up. it was highly entertaining, funny and, at times, even heart-warming. however i didn't fall in love with it and i don't see myself re-reading it any time soon.
Lucy Wadham offers here a rich and spicy recollection of her life among her parents, colorful sisters, eccentric grandmother, and uncles in London during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the passages that I delighted in reading was the following:“Eileen’s [the author’s maternal grandmother, who was a fre...