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'Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful country house in Nottinghamshire, and it was in this idyllic home that Miranda Seymour grew up. But her upbringing was far from idyllic, as life revolved around her father's capriciousness. The House took priority, and everything -- everyone -- else was secondary. Until, that is, the day late on in his life when George Seymour took to riding powerful motorbikes around the countryside clad in black leather in the company of a young male friend. Had he taken leave of his senses? Or finally found them? And how did this sea-change affect his wife and daughter? Both biography and family memoir, IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE is a riveting and ultimately shocking portrait of desire both overt and suppressed, and the devastating consequences of misplaced love.

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occasionally horrifying' -- Anthony Quinn, Observer

'Beautifully written and expertly structured . . . Perceptive,
passionate and entirely real' -- Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph

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`Utterly riveting, ruthlessly honest and strangely touching,
this portrait of the author's extraordinary father both appalled and moved
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`Astonishingly powerful and brilliantly written, with an ear and a sense of
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`A gem of a book - Miranda Seymour's riveting memoir tells a moving story
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`A brilliantly crafted true story, In My Father's House gains depth and
complexity from its willingness to explore the ethical dilemma of revealing
painful family secrets. There is more to learn about human nature in this
short memoir than in many novels two or three times its length'
PAT BARKER

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  • PublisherSimon & Schuster
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0743268679
  • ISBN 13 9780743268677
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages320
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