![]() Haunting and compelling, STRANGERS presents a family and its young detective in a startling light. 48 books based on 1 votes: Cecil Beatons Bright Young Things by Robin Muir, Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare, Bright Young. But as the secrets emerge the myth woven around the glamorous figures of the past is both enhanced and dispelled. Journalist Philip Hoare met Stephen Tennant shortly before his death in 1987. Their antics, dreams and grief are witnessed by the maid Louisa, and played out chiefly at Glen, the castle in the border of Scotland, where the young narrator pulls from long-sealed cupboards the stories of her family's past. For Stephen Tennant, pleasure always came before business, and serious pleasures they wereoutrageous, excessive, crazed, narcissistic in a way and on a scale some would find mental health material nowadays. Philip Hoare is the author of six works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), and England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant (nee Wyndham), warring sisters-in-law Pamela's children, her 'jewels' - Clare the wilful beauty, Stephen Tennant the outrageous aesthete, David the nightclub king, and the steady, sensible Christopher who becomes head of the family when the eldest brother Bim dies on the Somme - these are some of the characters brought to sudden and not always respectable life in this funny, touching and sometimes shocking novel. ![]() Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, STRANGERS is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. ![]()
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