![]() ![]() Thanks to netgalley for an early copy in return for an honest review. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2020. ' 5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDINGLY beautiful. is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life.' Kate Mosse, Book of the Year 2007, The Guardian, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday She was also, probably, the love of Agatha's life." Person, with the near-black eyes of a clever bird, she was the centre of the Ashfield world, the person who made imagination both possible and safe. Her influence upon Agatha - both by omission and involvement - was almost absolute. Had the instinctive wisdom of knowing just how much of this interest to show.Clara, as she was known, was an original. ![]() Clarissa, her mother, whose inquisitiveness would have been far greater, Her father, Frederick, was far too much the gentleman to interfere in his children's inner lives. ![]() ![]() Margaret (Madge) and ten after her brother Louis Montant (Monty). Agatha Mary Clarissa was the last of three children, born on 15 September 1890, eleven years after her sister But the Millers of Torquay were not as conventional as their appearance suggested,Īnd the dynamic of the family left Agatha protected yet separate, which was ideal for the growth of her particular personality. Perhaps it would not have existed at all. ".No doubt Agatha's inner life would have developed less freely had she been born into a different kind of family. ![]()
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