Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family - Softcover

Lewis, Jeremy

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9780099551881: Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099551888 ISBN 13: 9780099551881

Publisher: Vintage, 2011

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In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted and were found fathering twelve children. This book explores this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail - their relationships and shared history, and their lives - as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more.

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Review:

"A celebration of a remarkable family', 'a remarkably detailed account of the old-boy network, seen from the sunny side" (John Carey Sunday Times Culture)

"An adept and confident editor, choosing only the most memorable anecdotes and constantly reminding the reader of the interplay between family members', 'It is clear that the achievements of the extended Greene family were truly extraordinary. In Shades of Greene they have a worthy chronicle." (Tim Butcher The Times)

"Shades of Greene is an ambitious undertaking that has needed a prodigious amount of research ... Mr Lewis displays skill and stamina in interweaving his subjects' lives ... with his sense of mischief and his see-through glass prose, Greene would surely have approved" (Economist)

"Lewis's hugely detailed, exhaustively researched family saga makes you marvel, again and again, at the strangeness of this very English family, while leaving you fervently grateful you're not actually related to them" (John Walsh Independent)

"Lewis has a first class nose for truffling out good anecdotes" (Ian Irvine Observer)

Book Description:

A remarkable group portrait of one English family - the famed, intriguing and pioneering Greenes

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