- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Arcadia Books (10 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905147228
- ISBN-13: 978-1905147229
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,378,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Freeman's fascinating tale is first and foremost a portrait of Jewish life in late Victorian England" - Michael Arditti, "Independent on His Mistress's Voice". In her latest novel, Gillian Freeman transposes the Bloomsbury Group from the stifling pages of history into the fabric of a narrative that gives them a face more human than it is usually presented. The large cast of characters revolves around the beautiful Stephen sisters who, once married, become painter Vanessa Bell and novelist Virginia Woolf. From the opening in the suffocating atmosphere of their family home at 22 Hyde Park Gate to the unbearable sad conclusion at Monk's House in rural Sussex, Gillian Freeman follows the lives and careers of the two women, their husbands, lovers and friends, most of whom were to have a profound effect on art and literature during the first half of the twentieth century.This highly unconventional group that included Lytton Strachey, Vita Sackville-West, Bertrand Russell and Lady Ottoline Morrell, has been vividly re-imagined as characters who could have stepped from a glorious soap opera encompassing the first forty years of the last century and they become both more approachable and more sympathetic.
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By lily mandolin (Middle England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: But Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury (Paperback)
I felt that this book only skated over the surface of the Bloomsbury Group. Having saved it to read as a treat hoping to learn what made the characters in this group tick, I was disappointed. I'd hoped to discover why they acted as they did. What drew Leonard Woolf to Virginia? Was he brave, foolish or just in love, believing that his mission in life was to care for her? Did Vanessa Bell and her husband get married expecting to have an open marriage or did that just evolve? Why was Dora Carrington so unfathomable to me? Was I any closer to knowing at the end? And what was the finale of the B.G? Did it fall apart when you-know-who died? Was I told? Did I really care?Sadly, no. I might have been more sympathetic and interested had the narrative been less disjointed. I understand the author is a scriptwriter and I felt it showed: some of the scenes reminded me of notes waiting to be made into a film script. However, that said, this book does have merit. Its historical base is sound I am sure and it does give imaginative and beautifully descriptive glimpses, albeit tantalisingly brief, into the lives of some extraordinary people. Should the author ever write further about the Bloomsbury Group - and I hope she does - I would certainly read it with interest, as I would her earlier book His Mistress's Voice, should I come across it.
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