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A delightful and elegant literary memoir about the Scottish novelist's eccentric family. Selected as a (London) Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and shortlisted for the prestigious Scottish Saltire Literary Award, Strangers is a literary memoir by Emma Tennant, the Scottish novelist whose eccentric family is described here in a pristine and elegant style. The story begins in 1912, as the world is about to break into war. Emma's grandmother, the dreamy and beautiful Pamela, maintains an ongoing feud with Emma's great-aunt Margot (wife of Britain's Prime Minister). Pamela's son Bim dies on the Somme, and his sacrifice is accepted as if death lies in the faint outline of garden where it merges with rushes and reedbeds. Gradually, we encounter Emma herself, a lonely child left at the enormous family estate, Glen, during World War II, witnessing the mysterious comings and goings of her extended family including her aunt, the wayward, thrice-married Clare. Deeply evocative and atmospheric, and written with stunning detail, Strangers is, as The Guardian explains: a historical chronicle but also a reverie on where you put your family inside yourself.

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"Emma Tennant's memoir reads like the account of a young girl's dream -- a castle, secret rooms, overheard conversations, a brilliant harried prime minister and his formidable wife, Margot Asquith, as well as an entire generation of prince charmings..."

"A wonderful book about the kind of wildly original and brilliant family that only a writer as original and brilliant as Emma Tennant could have survived and describe."

"A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family."
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'A brilliant book about the extraordinary and eccentric Tennant family' Antonia Fraser

'In this kindly but honest tribute to her family, Emma Tennant finds "the words for what had taken so long to forget and now takes an age to remember". Polite when disparaging and reserved when loving, it is impossible not to be charmed by the author...Strangers is her funny, elegant commentary on the combined power and irrelevance of our ancestors and the spells they cast' The Times

'Tennant's book is neither history nor analysis, but an evocation of a complex inheritance, "with its dead rumours and incontrovertible facts". She sifts through these with a supple, imaginative empathy and the skill of a practised novelist' Sunday Times

'A dreamy romantic read, a fabulous conjuring up of an aristocratic world...The book is full of charm, as you would expect from this accomplished and delicate novelist, and of brilliant and startling incidents...Vivid and often affecting...The book is full of such truthful recreation of past moments, both remote and near' Mail on Sunday

'Fascinating...This is an insider story about "the strange yet known monsters who are my family". It is written with huge sensitivity...Tennant wonderfully describes the mysterious mores of the upper class' Oldie

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