Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir - Hardcover

Lowell, Ivana

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9780747595069: Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir

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ISBN 10: 0747595062 ISBN 13: 9780747595069

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

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Presents an account of the relationship between a mother and daughter, the story of two women whose deep affection for each other withstands everything that life has to throw at them.

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'Ivana Lowell's memoir is a heartbreaking account of a gifted woman, her brilliant but destructive parents, and a glamorous, aristocratic life that was laced with arsenic. That she survived and now shines as literary force in her own right is apparent from the very first page. Why not Say What Happened? is a tour de force' Amanda Foreman 'Shocking and hilarious, this elegantly lucid memoir by Ivana Lowell is that lethal mix of British aristocracy, giant fortunes, huge freezing houses, beautiful women jagged with sophistication, pedophilia, mysterious paternity, cruelty and yes, cocktails. We are reminded of the plays of Oscar Wilde and novels from Ronald Firbank to Evelyn Waugh as we are introduced to a lively and unlikely mix that includes the Queen Mother and Harvey and Bob Weinstein . I am not making this up. The startling thing is how recent all this and how extreme. Lowell is impressive and touching in sparing us none of this tragi/comedy, least of all herself' Mike Nichols 'An exhilarating roller-coaster ride of a book, full of the sort of wonderfully terrible secrets writers seldom have the guts to tell, let alone with such an assured and beguiling candor-but then of course, Ivana's Irish and a born writer' John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso

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Born into a wild, aristocratic and bohemian family, Ivana Lowell's memoir is fascinating, disturbing and completely unique.

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